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Another Retaliation Type Killing
posted (June 12, 2012)
The morning started out with the news that there had been another murder in the city - the third in three days - this one in the Lake Independence area - not too far from where a man had been shot in the eye on Sunday night.

But the murder probably happened from last night. Residents in the area of Miller and Roches Streets report that they heard a spray of gunfire from what sounded like an automatic weapon yesterday evening just after 6:00.

Police say that Keith Lewis and three other men were standing in a yard on Roches Street when a man approached from the area of Mckoy Boulevard and fired several shots at them.

The area is dark at night and it seems no one knew or cared to check what happened - until this morning when his dead body was seen at the back of a swampy yard; he had been left there overnight, dead.

This morning at 7:00 police processed the crime scene and took the body to the morgue. He had been riddled with gunfire, shot to the Chest, Back, and legs.

According to information, 24 year old Keith Lewis had been a target for some time - as a rival had wanted to retaliate for a shooting. Our records show that in July of 2011, Keith Lewis was charged with attempted murder abetment to commit murder, aggravated assault, wounding and use of deadly means of harm after a man was shot in the same general area where Lewis was killed last night. We stress that he was not convicted for that crime. Police say they have a known suspect in this case.

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