In the early morning hours of February 1, 2025, the quiet of a Kansas City neighborhood was broken by the response of firefighters to a blaze at a vacant church in the 2400 block of Chestnut Avenue. After they managed to control and extinguish the flames that had engulfed the structure, a grim discovery was made inside. The body of a man, later identified as 66-year-old Dwayne Blair, a Black male, was found amidst the charred remains of the building.
Initially treated as a fire fatality,
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