Thomas E Simmons

Kansas City police publicly identified Thomas E. Simmons, 27 as the city’s 76th homicide victim of 2010, a grim tally that put him near the end of a year already marked by violence.

On a Sunday night, Simmons was found dead inside a vehicle at the intersection of Gregory Boulevard and Prospect Avenue, the moment fixed in the initial reports at 10:41 p.m. By the following afternoon, authorities had released his name, but not the person who put him there—only the blunt reality that the ...