Jeannetie M Carroll

In the early morning hours of May 11, 2011, violence shattered the quiet of a Kansas City neighborhood, leaving a woman dead and a community searching for answers. Jeannette M. Carroll, a 33-year-old resident of the city, was found deceased at approximately 3:45 a.m. near the intersection of 39th and Chestnut. The cause of her death was a fatal shooting, marking another grim statistic in the city's growing list of homicides for the year.

According to witness accounts, the moments leading ...