A third man was charged with manslaughter Thursday in connection with the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl rally that left a woman dead and nearly two dozen others injured.
Terry Young, 20, of Kansas City, Missouri, was also charged with unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action. He is jailed on a $1 million bond and does not yet have an attorney. Phone messages left for his family were not immediately returned.
Lyndell Mays and Dominic Miller were also charged with manslaughter and several weapons counts shortly after the Feb. 14 shooting during a parade attended by an estimated 1 million people as Kansas City celebrated the Chiefs’ second straight Super Bowl victory. Two youths are also in custody, and three other men face weapons-related arrest and resisting charges, accused of illegally purchasing high-powered rifles and weapons with extended magazines, including weapons used during the rally.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said the investigation has reached an important milestone.
“Everyone we have identified who fired a firearm in response to the verbal altercation described here has been taken into custody,” she said in a statement.
While all suspected shooters have been identified, Baker said more charges are expected.
Police and prosecutors say the gunfire broke out when a group of people confronted another group for staring at them. Authorities have said a bullet from Miller’s gun killed Lisa Lopez-Galvan, who was in a nearby crowd of people watching the rally. She was a mother of two and host of a local radio show called “Taste of Tejano.” The injured range in age from 8 to 47, police said.
The last man charged and two others approached someone from the other group, and an argument broke out, according to a probable cause statement. When someone else pulled a gun, the man pulled out his own gun, the document said. Surveillance footage showed him appearing to shoot several times.
The man’s social media posts showed he was wearing the same distinctive backpack seen in the surveillance video, and his phone records showed the device was near the shooting when it happened, according to Baker and the probable cause statement.
Court documents released earlier this month said 12 people brandished firearms and at least six people fired weapons during the rally. Among the weapons found at the scene were at least two AR-style rifles, according to court documents. U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore has said at least two of the guns found at the scene were purchased illegally.