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Nov 12, 2004 · Kemp Powers tells his story about an unimaginable moment at 14 when he accidentally killed his best friend in a gun accident. The actual shooting is described in just a few pages, the remainder is Kent Power's life before and after, impacted forever by that moment.
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Nov 9, 2019 · The shooting : a memoir. by. Powers, Kemp. Publication date. 2004. Topics. Powers, Kemp, African American journalists -- Biography, African American boys -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography, Teenagers and death, Firearms accidents. Publisher.
Aug 9, 2014 · Photograph: Jason Falchook. The Moth: storytelling special Death and dying. This article is more than 9 years old. How I accidentally shot and killed my best friend. 'I can actually remember...
Kemp Powers. Kemp Powers is the author of The Shooting: A Memoir. You can see his plays at the Rogue Machine Theatre company in Los Angeles.
Nov 12, 2004 · As a black teenager going to junior high in a white neighborhood, Kemp became acutely aware of the racial tension and violence bubbling up in New York (think Bernard Goetz and Howard Beach and crack cocaine).
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Jan 1, 2005 · One day in 1988, unaware that her .38 revolver was loaded, 14-year-old Kemp shot his best friend Henry in the face, killing him. “Beyond all reason,” Henry’s parents forgave him and declined to press charges; despite the district attorney’s anger, he was sentenced to only a year of counseling.
Kemp Powers (born October 30, 1973) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his play One Night in Miami and the 2020 film adaptation of the same name, as well as for co-directing the animated films Soul (2020) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).
