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KCMO homicide victims remembered during The Longest Night
KCMO homicide victims remembered during The Longest Night
and last updated 2020-12-21 23:37:55-05
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Days before Christmas, the Wornall Road Baptist Church held a church service to remember the more than 170 lives lost in a Kansas City homicide so far in 2020 â a record-breaking year.
The service, held on the winter solstice, is called The Longest Night.
Families of homicide victims united to pray and comfort one another in the pews and outdoors, where crosses sit in front of the church, representing each victim. This is a really hard time around Christmastime, I think about him every day, she said. I miss that I love you, in the morning, and, I love you, at night. I got that every day.
Carlos Moreno/KCUR 89.3
Originally published on December 21, 2020 4:37 pm
For the past decade, Wornall Road Baptist Church has put crosses on its front lawn for every homicide victim in Kansas City.
Sue Bloemer of Brookside has lived across the street long enough to see the church put them up every year. But this year is the first time she s seen the crosses expand from the front lawn to the other side of the sidewalk. It s sad, Bloemer said Friday. It makes me realize it s time to pull together.
The church will be honoring the victims at “The Longest Night” on Monday, a night of prayer and reflection on Kansas City s deadliest year on record 173, according to the Kansas City Police Department.