Charles E Levingston

Charles E. Levingston Jr., a 40-year-old Black man, was killed on the evening of November 8, 2011, after gunfire erupted outside a Fast Stop convenience store on Blue Ridge Cutoff in Kansas City, Missouri. It was the kind of place people drift in and out of without thinking twice—quick stops for cigarettes, a drink, a few minutes under bright lights—until the call came in that changed the tone of the whole block.

Police were dispatched to the Fast Stop at 5020 Blue Ridge Cutoff at ar ...