“A dispute between several people that ended in gunfire”: Kansas City’s police chief today explained the cause of the shooting that left one man dead yesterday in the Missouri city, in the central US, which was celebrating its victory in Super Bowl.
“The preliminary revelations of the investigation showed that there was no connection to terrorism or a national violent extremism,” said Stacey Graves in a press conference.
“As reported yesterday, we have individuals in custody, two of whom are juveniles,” said Stacey Graves, who announced three arrests yesterday.
Tens of thousands of people were celebrating the victory of the Kansas City Chiefs football team by parading down the city street when gunshots rang out near the parking lot of Union Station near the end of the celebration.
One dead and 22 injured is the total toll, according to the authorities.
Lisa Lopez, the radio host whose death was announced by her station on Wednesday night, was 43.
“We had one fatality at the scene, eight critically injured, seven seriously injured and six with minor injuries,” the city’s fire chief, Ross Grandison, said today. Of the injured, “more than half are under 16 years old”, he clarified.
Mercy Children’s Hospital said it treated 12 patients, including 11 children between the ages of 6 and 15. “Nine children were injured by a bullet,” a hospital spokesman said, clarifying that doctors expect all the wounded who were treated to recover from their injuries and nine of them have already been discharged from the hospital.
Police once more appealed for testimony from anyone who “directly witnessed the shooting, has video of the shooting, or is a victim of the shooting who has not yet reported” to authorities.
An FBI platform was also launched to collect videos that might help the investigation.
Stacey Graves also praised those who “physically stopped a person suspected of involvement in the case.” They were two Kansas City Chiefs fans who went to the parade to celebrate and following the shots were heard they ran and stopped a man who was suspected of shooting. The man was taken into custody and is being questioned by the police along with two others.
Video circulating on social media shows bystanders chasing a hooded person before knocking him to the ground and immobilizing him.
This incident adds to the long list of gun tragedies in the United States, marking the heavy toll of their proliferation across the country and the ease with which Americans have access to them.
On Wednesday followingnoon, President Joe Biden once more called on Congress to legislate to end gun violence in the country.
Speaking of “tragedy”, the US president said he is praying “for those killed and injured in Kansas City”, but also “for our country to find the determination to end this senseless epidemic of gun violence that is tearing us apart”.
The mayor of Kansas City, who was present with his family at the parade, says he is “furious”. For Quinton Lucas, a parade to celebrate a Super Bowl victory, “is a day that a lot of people hope to remember for the rest of their lives, and what they shouldn’t remember is the threat that gun violence poses.” .
Source: RES-MPE
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