Brayden Gage Hendrix was 17 when he was killed by gun violence on April 6, 2022, in St. Joseph, Missouri. Born January 1, 2005, he died just months after his seventeenth birthday, and his funeral arrangements were handled by Rupp Funeral Home in St. Joseph.

The community paid tribute online and his name appears on the National Gun Violence Memorial site.

If anyone in St. Joseph had information about Brayden’s death or remembers events from April 2022, please share what you know.