A shooting broke out in Kansas City, Missouri, near the National Football League (NFL) champion Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory celebration, killing at least one person and wounding 21, with the police chief saying on Thursday, the 15th of February, that three people had been arrested in connection with the fatal mass shooting, reports Reuters.
Gunshots were heard at the end of a victory march outside a garage at Kansas City station. Videos posted on social media showed chaos outside the station, with police in uniforms rushing towards the building while bystanders rushed to escape.
Chaos has broken out at the end of the Chiefs Super Bowl parade. Police and military personnel just took off inside of Union Station pic.twitter.com/mqNeodS9r5
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Kansas City Police Chief Stacy Graves has said investigators did not know the motive for the violence. She said that at least 22 people were injured, including children as young as 6 years old. Fifteen of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries, the fire chief said.
The person killed has been identified as Lisa Lopez, a DJ and show host at a local radio station.
Twelve people were treated at the children’s hospital, 11 of them were children aged between six and 15. Nine of the 12 patients were wounded by gunshots, a hospital spokesman reported.
Graves has said she was aware that some fans were involved in the alleged capture of at least one suspect, and investigators were examining video footage of the incident.
BREAKING:
Video emerges of Kansas City fans tackling one of the shooters from the Super Bowl Parade attack pic.twitter.com/vSPhWl7you
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A parade attendee, Paul Contreras, said that he and other fans caught the man involved in the shooting. He said that the person dropped his weapon when he was caught. He described a chaotic scene in which they had struggled with the person. “He was trying to get up and run away the whole time,” Paul was quoted as saying, adding that police arrived within minutes.
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has said that the prevalence of guns in the US makes it difficult to provide complete security for any public event, even with several hundred police officers on patrol.
Some 800 law enforcement officers attended the rally and parade that preceded the shooting.
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