The Case:

In the early morning hours of May 20th, 2007, 21 year-old Christopher Bartholomew, was with friends at 39th and Broadway in Kansas City.

Chris was going to give friends a ride home. At that same time an argument erupted nearby between two groups of men and shots were fired.

Christopher and his friends were not involved. The victim grabbed one of the people near him in an attempt to pull them to safety and was struck by a stray bullet. He died from his injuries the next day. Three other people received non life-threatening wounds.

A reward fund established by Chris’s family and friends has boosted to total possible for information leading to an arrest up to $30,000.

I carry your heart with me
by e. e. cummings

I carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)