KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A family is mourning the death of a mother who was killed in front of her son Wednesday evening.
Joyce Myers’s heart is torn as she grieves the death of her 31-year-old daughter, La Shonda Myers.
“She didn’t bother nobody. Work and home: it’s where she went,” Joyce Myers said.
Myers said La Shonda devoted her time to her 10-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter.
On Wednesday around 8 p.m., La Shonda was at her home on 23rd and Monroe with her son, when a man knocked at the door.
The 10-year-old boy answered then got his mom.
“He thought it was the same person and she said ‘Tay, that’s not him,' and she said 'come look,' and when he came to the door and looked he was shooting her,” Joyce Myers said.
The boy told 41 Action News he ran upstairs to hide. He grabbed a phone from the bedroom then locked himself in the bathroom before dialing 911.
When police arrived, officers cleared every room before they led the boy out to his grandmother.
“He wanted to wait for his momma, I said ‘Tay, your mama is gone, she’s not coming,'” Joyce Myers said.
La Shonda was a graduate of Northeast High School and Everett College, where she got her nursing degree.
She was working as a nurse at Myers Nursing Home.
Her father had been staying at the house with her. At the time of her murder, he was working with her mother at a laundromat.
Joyce Myers described La Shonda as a homebody but said she’d been having trouble recently with her ex-boyfriend. They had dated for a year, but five months ago La Shonda asked him to move out after he got physically violent with her.
“He was—jumped on her, he’d done threw the tv and thrown it on the floor, shoved her,” Joyce Myers said.
As of now La Shonda’s children and relatives said they don’t know if he played a role in the mother’s death. Now, they are left figuring out how to move on.
“They [La Shonda’s children] haven’t processed it and they probably won’t until after the funeral,” Joyce Myers said.
Police said they haven’t ruled anything out at this point and haven’t released a suspect description.
If you know anything, call KCPD or the TIPS Hotline (816) 474-TIPS (8477).
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