KANSAS CITY, Mo. — “I am not a Snitch, I am a Witness.”  That’s the title of a new rap put forth by a not so “new” rapper, 71 year-old Carl Boyd, the creator and longtime host of the *Generation Rap* teen talk show.

In his rapping debut, Boyd says there have been too many crimes committed in Kansas City, and people know who’s responsible, but they won’t step forward.

Sixteen year-old Audrey North constantly misses her best friend and older brother- 20 year-old Ashton O’Guinn.  He was killed April 23, 2012.

She says whoever killed him took two lives.

“He’s taken my smile.  He’s taken my way of life.  I had a brother, and I no longer have him, so he’s taken my life as well as my brother’s,” said North.

Audrey and her family don’t know who to hold accountable for Ashton’s death, even more than a year later.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — A belt, a gun and a meth pipe. The victim of a brutal assault told FOX 4 those are just some of the weapons an Independence, Mo., man used to assault her.

Thirty-two-year-old Cornelius Coleman is currently on parole and a registered sex offender. He now faces charges of assault and kidnapping.

The victim, who did not want to be shown on camera, is identified in court documents as “A.W.” She says Coleman was high on meth when, over the course of several days, he viciously abused her.

“I was going to die,” she said. “Just anything I did that he did not agree with, anything I said.”

A.W. says Coleman, while high on meth, snapped. She was handcuffed, put in a room, and according to court documents, struck with a belt more than 15 times.

It was the same belt he used to then choke her.

GRANDVIEW, Mo. — On this already stormy day in the Midwest, we look back at a storm that killed forty-four people 56 years ago Monday, the Ruskin Heights tornado.

“I can almost remember moment by moment everything that happened that day- that night, the next day, and so-on down the road,” said Beverly Michael.

Beverly Michael was just getting off the school bus when she noticed things looked strange outside.

“It was really windy, and very funny looking.  The sky and everything,” she said.

Beverly didn’t think much of it, so she and her family went about their normal evening at their motel, the Circle H Ranch House Motel.

“After dinner on Monday nights we always watched ‘I Love Lucy,’ so we were watching that when they interrupted the program and told us about the storms,” Beverly explained.