By Terri Darr McLean
KyForward news editor
When 26-year-old Jonathan Price was gunned down in the parking lot of a popular Lexington night spot last summer, he became another grim statistic. He was the city’s eighth homicide victim of 2014, one of 18 for the year.
While 18 homicides is nothing unusual for Lexington – on average there are 14 to 19 homicides a year – Price’s death came during an especially violent period for Kentucky’s second-largest city. He was one of five people shot – and two killed – in a single weekend and the first of a dozen shootings and four deaths in a little over a month.
For his wife, their family and friends, of course, Jonathan is no statistic. Behind an awful number is a very human story.
It’s the story of an only child who grew up in a loving family, of a young man who volunteered to serve his country, of a newlywed who married his best friend, and of a kind soul embraced by those who knew him simply as J.P.
It’s also the story of a young wife who was shot first on that warm June evening, of how she is surviving both the physical and emotional trauma, and of how she is determined to use this tragedy to make the world a little better place.
“Stories like this should be heard,” Megan Price said nearly eight months later. “It’s kind of cheesy but Garth Brooks’ new song ‘People Loving People,’ that’s what I want to come out of this.”
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