‘Amazing young man’: GoFundMe launched for teen found fatally shot in Kansas City, Kansas
The family of one of two teenagers killed in Kansas City, Kansas, last week has launched a GoFundMe page to help pay for funeral expenses.
Samuel Guess, died Feb. 18 along with Antonio Johnson. Police found them fatally shot. Guess and Johnson were 14 years old and students in the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools district, officials confirmed.
“He was amazing young man with alot of life to live!” GoFundMe page organizer Tamara Stockdale wrote. “He loved to play video games with his cousins & being a big brother to his sister’s.”
The fundraiser has received $2,265 as of Tuesday morning, surpassing it’s $2,000 goal.
Police were dispatched on a shooting call at an apartment in the 2200 block of Birch Drive. When officers arrived, they found Guess and Johnson inside with gunshot wounds. They were both pronounced dead at the scene.
The homicide took place across the street from Argentine Middle School. There was no school Friday as Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools already had a scheduled day off for students.
There have been no arrests relating to the homicide, said Nancy Chartrand, a spokeswoman for the police department.
The district’s crisis incident team will be at the schools Tuesday when students return to classes, district spokeswoman Sharita Hutton said.
The homicides were the city’s seventh and eighth this year, according to data compiled by The Star. Three youths have died in homicides in Kansas City, Kansas, this year. On Jan. 29, 15-year-old José Garcia Muñoz was found fatally shot in a home in the 200 block of South 14th Street.
Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).
This story was originally published February 22, 2022 at 9:08 AM.
