In 2016, the homicide rate in Kansas City, Missouri, was the highest it had been in a decade. Twelve of the people killed that year were under the age of 16. Meet some of the people whose lives have become intertwined with this ongoing violence. Subscribe on iTunes , Google Play and Stitcher Music: Emmit Sprak , Scalloped , Cobweb Transit , and A Calendar Spread by Blue Dot Sessions; all have been edit.