On February 14, 2024, bullets were fired close to the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII championship parade in Kansas City, Missouri, causing people to evacuate the area. When the shooting started, more than 800 police officers were in the vicinity of Union Station for the victory rally, reported Police Chief Stacey Graves. As the festivities came to a conclusion, guests reported hearing an argument and seeing a revolver pulled.
According to the investigation’s first findings, there is no link between the incident and domestic violent extremism or terrorism. Rather, Chief Graves added, the gunshot seemed to be the result of a fight involving many persons.
Three juveniles were charged on Thursday, February 15th, according to a press release from the Jackson County Family Court. They were held at the county’s Juvenile Detention Center “on gun-related and resisting arrest charges.” The press statement stated that there are “additional charges that are expected in the future as the investigation by the Kansas City Police Department states.”
After determining that one of the three juveniles in custody wasn’t engaged in the shooting, the police released them. In addition to requesting that witnesses, victims, and anybody with smartphone footage of the violence call a special hotline, police are searching for more individuals who may have been involved.
Chief Stacey Graves of the Kansas City Police Department stated that at least half of the victims in the mass shooting were less than sixteen. 11 children, ages 6 to 15, were brought to Children’s Mercy Hospital. Hospital authorities could not tell if the 6-year-old was hurt by gunshots or by the mayhem that followed, but, according to authorities, three of the children admitted to Mercy Hospital on Friday still had gunshot wounds, making nine children in all that were injured.
In the gunshots that broke out on Wednesday as the procession and demonstration were coming to an end, a mother and a well-known disc jockey lost her life. Twenty-two others, the most of whom were youngsters, were also injured. As of Friday, one person was in severe condition and two were still in critical condition. The majority of the hurt kids were discharged from the hospital and were anticipated to heal. Radio station KKFI-FM revealed that the deceased woman was Lisa Lopez-Galvan, the anchor of “Taste of Tejano.”
Taylor Swift, who is dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, gave $100,000 to Lopez-Galvan’s family as compensation for the tragedy. On a GoFundMe website, two $50,000 contributions were made on Friday, February 16th under the singer’s identity. Variety, a trade newspaper, said that Swift’s representative confirmed the donations, and The Associated Press independently validated the posts.
