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Tragedy struck it Super Bowl his festive parade Kansas City Chiefs after a shooting that left one dead and many injured.
On Wednesday (Feb. 14), Kansas City Chiefs fans gathered outside the 19th-century train station-turned-mall and science center located downtown after the team's Super Bowl LVIII victory parade in Las Vegas. According to police reports, shots rang out on the west side of Union Station at 2 p.m., sending the assembled crowd of nearly a million people fleeing. When police regained control, one person was pronounced dead and twenty victims were rushed to area hospitals. Eleven children were among those shot. The dead victim was later identified as Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a radio DJ for local station KFFI, who was the host of the popular “Taste of Tejano” program.
Police are still investigating investigations on what triggered the shooting. Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves confirmed they had people in custody, citing videos on social media of Chiefs fans tackling someone. “I want to address the question I had earlier about a video of some fans tackling someone. We have three people in custody and under investigation for today's incident. We are working to determine if one of the three is the one who was in that video where fans were helping the police,” he told the press. The FBI has also set up a website where people can share video of the incident with investigators.
At the aforementioned press conference, Kansas City Mayor Quentin Lucas confirmed that he was at Union Station with his wife and mother when he heard the gunshots. “When you have people who decide to bring guns to events, when you have people who decide to try to disrupt events — festive ones like this — we all start to become members of this club that none of us want to be a part of,” he said. Players from the Chiefs is expressed their grief, with star Patrick Mahomes writing to X that he was “Praying for Kansas City,” and Travis Kelce writing that he was “heartbroken” about the shooting in his post on the stand.
