In the winter of 2019, a burst of gunfire shattered the evening calm at the intersection of 23rd Street and Indiana Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. When the chaos subsided, a 20-year-old man, Kareem A. Nelson, was discovered inside a vehicle, critically wounded. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but his injuries proved too severe. Two days later, on December 19, 2019, Nelson succumbed to his wounds, marking another homicide in a city grappling with a high rate of violent crime that year.
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