Kurtis V Stanton

Murdered

Kurtis V. Stanton, a 19-year-old from Chicago, was fatally shot on January 17, 2012, while visiting a friend in the Washington Heights neighborhood. Kurtis was shot from behind on the 1500 block of West 94th Street. He had been planning to surprise his mother with the news that he was going to start recording his rapping professionally, a passion of his, before his life was tragically cut short. His mother, Kelly Stanton, described Kurtis as her only child, and she learned of his aspirations in ...Read More