And the violence flared up in the Lake Independence area again on Monday night. Just a few blocks across from where Lanza was killed, a young couple was shot and the male was killed while his 18 year old girlfriend SHANICE ROWLAND was shot in the chest.
It happened around 7:30 last night on Mahogany Street where a shooter with blue shorts and a blue hat, rode up on a bicycle and fired several shots at the ocuple. 22 year old Kevin Pott was shot in his head, his back, and midsection. 18 year old Shanice Rowland who stood with him was shot in the chest. She is in stable condition, but tonight Pott's family is preparing for a funeral for this young man.
I spoke with his mother today:..
Barbara Pott, Mother of Deceased
"He had just left with his girlfriend. He said he was going to take her home. When I heard the gunshot, I told my daughter-in-law to go and see what happened because Kevin had just left from here."
"She went out to see and saw a lot of people around. She came back for my other son to go with her. I called his cell phone and no one answered. I said to myself that he had just left, and that sounds very close."
"My sister-in-law came and I told her to go with Delcia (daughter-in-law) because I cannot move. So they went, she called back and said that it is Kevin and Shanice."
"I don't know if he has anything with anyone because he has friends that always come to visit. He doesn't go out."
"Some time ago the police was harassing him and so I told him to stop go out; you got a job, go to work and come back home. So, most of the time he is at home, because, I got enough of the police harassing him when he goes out."
"He was home and his girlfriend came to visit him here."
No one has been arrested for that murder - but it was not the end of the weekend violence in the Lake Independence area - we'll tell you about another shooting later.
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