Teenagers fatally shot in Kansas City were 'friends until the end,' family says Anna Spoerre, The Kansas City Star Apr. 2—Dominik Simmons and Dominique Nelson were inseparable, family of the 15-year-olds said. Sometimes Dominique's family would find her best friend, Dominik, sitting on her porch in the morning, waiting for her to wake up. Friends since they were 8 years old, the two lived a couple blocks apart in Kansas City and were rarely seen without the other, loved ones said. Dominique's family referred to the pair as "the Domos." Dominik's father, Willie Wilkins, called them "two peas in a pod."