KANSAS CITY, Mo.: The capturing after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration that killed one lady and injured greater than 20 individuals seems to have stemmed from a dispute, police mentioned Thursday.
Shots rang out on the finish of the celebration outdoors the town’s historic Union Station. Fans had lined the parade route and a few even climbed bushes and avenue poles or stood on rooftops to observe as gamers handed by on double-decker buses. The crew mentioned all gamers, coaches and staffers and their households have been “safe and accounted for” after the capturing.
Mayor Quinton Lucas, who attended together with his spouse and mom and ran for security when pictures have been fired, mentioned the capturing occurred regardless of the presence of greater than 800 law enforcement officials within the constructing and close by.
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The 22 individuals injured within the capturing ranged between the ages of 8 and 47 years previous and half of them have been beneath the age of 16, Police Chief Stacey Graves mentioned at a information convention on Thursday. A mom of two was additionally killed.
Radio station KKFI mentioned through Facebook that Lisa Lopez-Galvan, the host of “Taste of Tejano,” was killed. Lopez-Galvan, whose DJ title was “Lisa G,” was an extrovert and devoted mom of two from a outstanding Latino household within the space, mentioned Rosa Izurieta and Martha Ramirez, two childhood pals who labored along with her at a staffing firm. Izurieta mentioned Lopez-Galvan attended the parade along with her husband and her grownup son, a loyal Kansas City sports activities fan who additionally was shot.
Lopez-Galvan additionally performed at weddings, quinceañeras and an American Legion bar and grill, mixing Tejano, Mexican and Spanish music with R&B and hip hop. Izurieta and Ramirez mentioned Lopez-Galvan’s household is energetic within the Latino neighborhood and her father based the town’s first mariachi group, Mariachi Mexico, within the Eighties.
Of the eight gunshot victims taken to 1 hospital on Wednesday, officers mentioned two have been nonetheless in vital situation on Thursday morning and 5 had been discharged. The hospital was treating 4 individuals who had been injured within the chaos after the capturing, and three of them had been discharged. An official at a second hospital mentioned Thursday that one gunshot sufferer there stays in vital situation and 4 individuals injured within the aftermath of the capturing have been handled and launched.
At a kids’s hospital, an official mentioned Thursday that 9 of the 12 sufferers they acquired from the celebration have been launched. Of the 11 kids they handled between 6 and 15, 9 of them had gunshot wounds. All have been anticipated to get better.
Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves mentioned three individuals, together with two juveniles, have been detained and a number of other firearms have been recovered. Police are working to find out whether or not different individuals have been concerned, she mentioned, calling it “a very active investigation.” Police didn’t launch particulars about those that have been detained, the weapons seized or a attainable motive.
Investigators have been asking witnesses, individuals with cellphone footage and victims of the violence to name a devoted hotline. It’s not clear how the capturing unfolded or how many individuals fired weapons, however Graves mentioned the capturing largely occurred on the west aspect of Union Station and never at multiple location as preliminary reviews indicated.
Graves thanked individuals on the occasion who “acted bravely” alongside regulation enforcement, noting that individuals helped one another and even bodily stopped one one who was believed to be concerned. A video confirmed two individuals chase and deal with an individual, holding them down till two law enforcement officials arrived.
Kansas City has struggled with gun violence, and in 2020 it was amongst 9 cities focused by the U.S. Justice Department in an effort to crack down on violent crime. In 2023, the town matched its report with 182 homicides, most of which concerned weapons.
Mayor Quinton Lucas has joined with mayors throughout the nation in calling for brand spanking new legal guidelines to scale back gun violence, together with mandating common background checks.
The gun violence at Wednesday’s parade is the most recent at a sports activities celebration within the U.S. to be marred by gun violence, following a capturing that wounded a number of individuals final yr in Denver after the Nuggets’ NBA championship, and gunfire final yr at a parking zone close to the Texas Rangers’ World Series championship parade.
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