KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City family wants to know why anyone would want to hurt their loved ones, including a three-year-old child.
On Saturday night, that family gathered for a vigil and urged whoever has information into the killing of Myeisha Turner and her daughter, Damiah White, to step up and help in this case.
Damiah was set to start preschool soon and turn four next month. But all of that changed when someone killed her and her mother. A one-year-old boy was the lone survivor of a brutal attack.
“He is the only thing I have left,” Cheryl Turner, Myeisha Turner’s mother, said.
Turner lost not only her daughter but also her granddaughter.
“She was a beautiful person, she worked every day and was a loving mother,” Turner said.
Myeisha Turner was going to school to be a nurse and she also worked at St Luke’s. On Friday, a family member stopped by to check on her and that is when she found Myeisha and her daughter dead and the one-year-old boy all alone.
“Damiah was my granddaughter, she was very smart. She was beautiful; I don’t understand why someone would do this in the name of God,” Turner said.
Saturday night’s vigil drew in dozens of people with broken hearts and so many questions.
So far there have been no arrests. If you have any information you are asked to call the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS (8477).
Sunday night at 5 o’clock the AdHoc Group Against Crime will host another vigil in honor of Myeisha and her young daughter. That vigil is also supposed to be at 55th and Wabash.
This is not the first time Cheryl Turner has had to deal with such a tragic loss. Just two years ago she lost her other daughter, Ebony Turner. FOX 4 was at the vigil back in August of 2012 as family members released balloons in Ebony’s honor. Ebony was driving on Parallel Parkway in Kansas City, Kan. when someone started firing shots into her vehicle killing her. The suspect eventually turned himself in.