\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFamily and friends gathered Sunday night along the Sacramento waterfront to remember 31-year-old Kenneth Peace, who relatives say was shot and killed at a Sacramento County liquor store.The Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Peace was shot Saturday inside Prestige Liquor and Wine. Deputies said the gunman had fled by the time they arrived.At the vigil, loved ones embraced, prayed, and honored Peace with candles, white balloons, and chalk messages. Family members said Peace, whom relatives nicknamed \u201cKing Tut,\u201d was a devoted father and a steady presence in their lives.\u201cWhen people talk about Kenneth, I want them to understand who he truly was,\u201d his cousin, Patrice Edwards, said. \u201cKenneth was a family man. He was dependable. He was the person who showed up.\u201dEdwards described the family\u2019s grief as overwhelming and said Peace\u2019s death has affected far more than one person.\u201cYou have caused unimaginable pain. You didn\u2019t just take one life; you shattered an entire family,\u201d Edwards said.She said Peace leaves behind two young children and a large extended family.\u201cYou robbed two children of father and mother, of innocent civilians, of their brothers, cousins, other family members, and friends, and someone they cared about deeply,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cKenneth deserved to grow old.\u201dEdwards said Peace should have had the chance to see his children, identified by family as Zaria and Aria, reach major milestones.\u201cKenneth deserved to grow old. He deserved to watch Zaria and Aria graduate,\u201d she said. \u201cHe deserved birthdays, weddings, baby showers and celebrations for decades to come.\u201dA family friend, Claudia Jenkins, said the family is grieving together while trying to remain strong.\u201cWe\u2019re weeping for each other. We\u2019re grieving for each other. But we\u2019re holding on,\u201d she said.Even as they mourn, relatives said they want the public to focus on helping investigators solve the case.\u201cTonight is not only about mourning. It is about seeking justice,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cAnd if you know anything about what happened, no matter how small it may seem, please come forward.\u201dNo arrests had been announced as of Sunday night.Anyone with information is asked to contact the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel | Make KCRA a preferred news source in Google\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Family and friends gathered Sunday night along the Sacramento waterfront to remember 31-year-old Kenneth Peace, who relatives say was shot and killed at a Sacramento County liquor store.<\/p>\n
The Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Peace was shot Saturday inside Prestige Liquor and Wine. Deputies said the gunman had fled by the time they arrived.<\/p>\n
At the vigil, loved ones embraced, prayed, and honored Peace with candles, white balloons, and chalk messages. Family members said Peace, whom relatives nicknamed \u201cKing Tut,\u201d was a devoted father and a steady presence in their lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people talk about Kenneth, I want them to understand who he truly was,\u201d his cousin, Patrice Edwards, said. \u201cKenneth was a family man. He was dependable. He was the person who showed up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Edwards described the family\u2019s grief as overwhelming and said Peace\u2019s death has affected far more than one person.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have caused unimaginable pain. You didn\u2019t just take one life; you shattered an entire family,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n
She said Peace leaves behind two young children and a large extended family.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou robbed two children of father and mother, of innocent civilians, of their brothers, cousins, other family members, and friends, and someone they cared about deeply,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cKenneth deserved to grow old.\u201d<\/p>\n
Edwards said Peace should have had the chance to see his children, identified by family as Zaria and Aria, reach major milestones.<\/p>\n
\u201cKenneth deserved to grow old. He deserved to watch Zaria and Aria graduate,\u201d she said. \u201cHe deserved birthdays, weddings, baby showers and celebrations for decades to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
A family friend, Claudia Jenkins, said the family is grieving together while trying to remain strong.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re weeping for each other. We\u2019re grieving for each other. But we\u2019re holding on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Even as they mourn, relatives said they want the public to focus on helping investigators solve the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cTonight is not only about mourning. It is about seeking justice,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cAnd if you know anything about what happened, no matter how small it may seem, please come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
No arrests had been announced as of Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a> | Make KCRA a preferred news source in Google<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family and friends gathered Sunday night along the Sacramento waterfront to remember 31-year-old Kenneth Peace, who relatives say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14852,21105,77381,1431,8593,1576,5364,719,77429,14939,346,143642,7454,7248,121,357,6769,123,122,135,143643,35534,5700,143644],"class_list":["post-351314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-andres-valle","tag-arden","tag-devoted-father","tag-family","tag-family-member","tag-friend","tag-gun-violence","tag-justice","tag-kenneth","tag-liquor-store","tag-office","tag-patrice-edwards","tag-peace","tag-relative","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-county-sheriffs-office","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-shooting","tag-victim-kenneth-peace","tag-vigil","tag-young-child","tag-zaria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}