Derrick C. Thurman Jr., a 14-year-old Black boy, was found shot to death on the front porch of his family�s home in Kansas City, Missouri, in the early hours of June 7, 2023. It was the kind of ordinary place where a kid should�ve been safest�at home, steps from the front door�yet that porch became the last scene of his life.
Police were dispatched to 8335 Wayne Ave. around 5:37 a.m. after a shooting call, and they arrived to find Derrick on the porch with gunshot wounds. Paramedics resp
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