KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas today released the following statement regarding charges filed in connection with the murder of four-year-old LeGend Taliferro:

“LeGend Taliferro deserved to be able to grow up. While I am glad justice has been served, our community, and a good family, continue to mourn his life cut far too short by violent crime.

“I appreciate the good person who came forward to help provide a degree of closure to a mourning family. It remains imperative that people who have information on shootings or homicides in Kansas City continue to come forward. I thank the women and men of the Kansas City Police Department, the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office and other law enforcement partners for their diligent work in this case.”

Anyone with any information on crimes in Kansas City is encouraged to call the anonymous TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS.

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