Each week, members of Kansas City Mothers in Charge call to check in on hundreds of mothers who've lost a child to gun violence.

Rosilyn Temple, the group's founder, has been to nearly 40 homicide scenes this summer.

Last month, she met Kelley Fitzpatrick at the scene of Fitzpatrick's son's murder.

"We call him Chucky," Fitzpatrick laughed. "One time, me and his dad was going to a movie, and he said 'bye bye' just like Chucky did. He was one maybe or two."

Fitzpatrick's son, Nicholas Carter, was shot to death July 15 inside an apartment in the 5200 block of Oak Leaf Drive.

Today would have been his 37th birthday.

"[He] was really outgoing, didnt meet no strangers," his mother said.

KC Mothers in Charge hosted the family at a vigil Monday at Gillham Park on Carter's birthday.

He had

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