KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Kansas City has reached a grim milestone – its 100th homicide of the year – following the Saturday killing of 16-year-old Traelynn Sibley.
Her death also underscores another troubling statistic: the city has recorded more than 100 homicides in 33 of the past 40 years.
The last time Kansas City ended a year below that mark was 2014, with 82 killings. Sibley’s death is the eighth homicide this year involving a victim under the age of 18.
“Where is our outrage?” asked Tony “Bishop” Caldwell, with the Justice & Dignity Center .
Messe McKalister, founder of the nonprofit Giving Our Community a Future ( GOCaf ), said the violence has become normalized.
“It’s becoming a so regular occurrence that I believe that we become numb, like it’s just okay,” McKalister sa