Shirley Ann Washington

Shirley Ann Washington was a woman from Kansas City, Missouri, whose life ended on December 4, 1998. Those are the only pieces of her story you can hold in your hands right now: a name, a place, a date. And still, even with so little written down, the loss feels immense—because a human life is never actually small, even when the record of it is.

Kansas City is a living, breathing place, full of everyday sounds and routines: traffic rolling through familiar streets, radios humming in kit ...

Shirley Ann Washington - National Gun Violence Memorial