KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A 12-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting at East 33rd Street and College Avenue Wednesday night. Neighbors said he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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KMBC's Peggy Breit reported that Dominique Henderson was in his back yard when a man in a passing car opened fire. He was caught in the crossfire.

His mother rushed him to a nearby fire station, where firefighters started CPR, but it was too late.

An adult was also wounded in the shooting. His injuries were not life-threatening, officials said.

Neighbors told Breit that the area can seem like a war zone at times.

"(To) tell you the truth, it just seems to me that they're terrorizing this area. It's got something to do with 33rd Street. They're just terrorizing this area," neighbor Angelo Pate said.

No arrests have been made.

"I'm not going to lie, I think a lot of people around here know something about what's going on, but they're too scared to say anything about it," neighbor Christopher Baskin said.

Breit reported that police spend a lot of time in the area getting to know the residents, responding to reports of shootings, drug deals and other crimes.

"Dominique didn't have anything to do with this. What he's guilty of is living on 33rd," Pate said.

"It's too much violence, we need to stop it ... Whoever you are -- you need to stop it," said Manuel Stringer, Henderson's uncle. Stringer has also lost two sons to gun violence in the last year.

Police are looking for a dark-colored, early 1990s Lincoln Town Car that had three or four black men inside at the time of the shooting. Anyone with information in the case can contact the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-8477. Callers can remain anonymous.

This was the 49th homicide of the year.

Community Gathering

Thursday evening, neighbors gathered at an east-side park to talk about how to stop the rising tide of violence.

Some said the focus should be on getting guns out of the wrong hands.

"Seven percent of the population is causing 90 percent of the crime. We need to focus on that. There needs to be officers that all they do is go out and find people with guns who are not supposed to have them," said community activist Ron McMillan.

Another resident said parents need to be more responsible for their children.

"Walking up and down this street today, there were children running around ... I didn't see any adults, you know, and who is to say that child is not going to get hit by a car or anything, and we have to step up and be better parents than what we were being before," said the Rev. Octavia Southall.