The amount of gun violence in Cape Girardeau is a new and troubling phenomenon for city councilwoman Shelly Moore, who has lived in the city for 50 years.

“This is not normal,” she said.

The style and circumstances around some of the shootings alarms Stop Needless Acts of Violence Please (SNAP) members, who met for a vigil Friday night near the site of Airious Darling’s killing March 31.

The first Cape Girardeau/Bollinger County Major Case Squad investigation of 2015 began in the afternoon of June 29. Paige Smith was sitting on the porch between two other women when she was shot in the head in a drive-by shooting.

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