'My heart is shattered': Educator remembers 12-year-old Jerel McGeachy Jr., boy killed at Northland home

It's the second coming of Urkel.


Kansas City police responded to a home Monday for a welfare check after 38-year-old Domonique A. McGeachy failed to show up for work. When they went inside they found McGeachy dead along with her husband Jerel McGeachy, also 38, and their son 12-year-old Jerel McGeachy Jr. Cops say the elder McGeachy shot both his wife and son to death before turning the gun on himself. No motive was released.

In every dream home, a heartache.

Smith said despite being young, McGeachy Jr. was already a mature and intelligent kid who was never afraid to speak his mind and stand up for what he believed was right.

McGeachy Jr. spoke at many events, including a Martin Luther King Jr. event hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Eta Beta Lambda.
McGeachy Jr. left a lasting impression.

Below is a part of the address he gave at the Alpha Phi Alpha event:

"I don’t mind. Like anybody, I’d like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now; I just want to do God’s will."
“Jerel reached the mountaintop even if his time here on earth was brief," Smith said. "I feel proud to have been a part of his journey.”

McGeachy Jr.'s address went on to say, “We got some difficult days ahead; it doesn’t really matter to me now because I’ve been to the mountain top."

It gets even better.

" Jerel served on our Congress Middle School Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Council and played the trumpet in the band," Smith said. “He was inducted into our National Junior Honor Society and was selected to be the principal's student speaker for the eighth grade celebration at the end of this school year."
He even had a business card! Now that race hustling is a modern lucrative enterprise, I guess it is a business.

KSHB 41 found out many people around town had been given a copy of his business card.

The Negro League Baseball Museum confirmed McGeachy Jr.'s business card was even on their desks.


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