This is the moment thousands of Kansas City Chiefs fans ran for their lives as gunshots rang out during celebrations following their team’s triumphant Super Bowl parade.
Security video from a home overlooking the Union Station area where the shots were fired shows a crowd milling around in the aftermath of the parade and on-stage performances by the team and coach Andy Reid.
Seconds into the clip, groups of people start walking and then run away from the epicenter of the violence.
Trey Filter, the heroic father and Chiefs fan who took out one of the shooters after tackling him, described the crowd as if there was a mouse “loose in the house,” according to the New York Post.
According to officials, eight children and 22 people were struck by gunfire during Wednesday’s parade. One of those victims – a mother of two, identified by her radio station as DJ, Lisa Lopez-Galvan – was killed. Three people are now in custody.
The crowd seen in the aftermath of the parade just seconds before the gunshots were heard
As soon as the shots were heard, hero Trey Filter said the crowd started moving as if there was a “mouse in the house.”
What starts as walking eventually causes hundreds of fans to sprint away from the epicenter of the violence
Close friends confirmed to the newspaper that Lisa Lopez-Galvan died of a gunshot wound to her abdomen during surgery in a hospital
The Kansas City star first reported that Lopez-Galvan was killed in the shooting.
Close friends confirmed to the newspaper that Lopez-Galvan died of a gunshot wound to her abdomen during surgery in a hospital.
Radio station KKFI said in a Facebook post Wednesday evening that Lopez-Galvan, host of “Taste of Tejano,” was killed in the shooting.
“This senseless act took a beautiful person from her family and this KC community,” KKFI said in a statement.
Lopez-Galvan, whose DJ name was “Lisa G,” was an outgoing and devoted mother from a prominent Latino family in the area, said Rosa Izurieta and Martha Ramirez, two childhood friends who worked with her at a staffing agency.
Izurieta said Lopez-Galvan attended the parade with her husband and her adult son, a die-hard sports fan from Kansas City who was also shot.
“She’s the type of person who would jump in front of a bullet for anyone, that would be Lisa,” Izurieta said.
Local Democrat Manny Abarca, a friend of Lopez-Galvan, spoke about her impact in an interview with TalkTV’s Jeremy Kyle and Rosie Wright on Talk Today.
‘It’s a tragic situation. I was there with my six-year-old daughter Camilla and we went from catching confetti to hiding in a bathroom, not knowing what our fate might be. Unfortunately, this is the situation at major events like this in America.”
People flee after shots are fired near Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII victory parade
We need to be on the lookout for people with guns that are easily accessible, and especially accessible in states like Missouri,” he continued.
Abarca went on to call Lopez-Galvan an “incredible leader in the Latino community” in Kansas City.
“I have had the opportunity and privilege to be on her show and participate with her and her family in community events throughout Kansas City. So she is a great loss to our community.”
‘But she was also a mother. She was a friend and neighbor. These are the kind of people who, tragically, are victims of what some, you know, use as a hobby: collecting so many guns.”
On Twitter, Abarca vowed that his friend’s tragic death would not be well received.
“I won’t let her death happen in a vein. “I will legislate, I will fight and I WILL do everything in my power to change this state and city for the better,” he said.
Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves confirmed that three people have been arrested as part of the investigation.
‘I’m angry about what happened today. The people who came to this party should expect a safe environment.” Graven said. )
Police did not immediately release details about the people arrested or a possible motive for the shooting. She said firearms were recovered, but did not specify what kind.
“That’s all under active investigation,” she said.
It’s the latest sports celebration in the U.S. to end in gun violence, following a shooting that injured several people in downtown Denver last year after the Nuggets’ NBA championship, and gunfire last year in a parking lot near the Texas Rangers’ World Series championship. procession.
Social media users posted a shocking video of police running through a crowded scene as people rushed for cover and fled.
One video showed someone performing chest compressions on a shooting victim while another person lay on the ground nearby, apparently writhing in pain. People were shouting in the background.
Another video showed two people chasing and attacking a person, holding him down until two police officers arrived.
The shooting outside Union Station happened despite there being more than 800 police officers in the building and the surrounding area, including at nearby buildings, said Mayor Quinton Lucas, who was present with his wife and mother and had to take cover when gunfire rang out. erupted. out.
“I think this is something where we as parents, regular people living every day, have to decide what we want to do about it,” Lucas said. ‘Parades, rallies, schools, movies. It seems like almost nothing is safe.”
Kansas City has long struggled with gun violence and was one of nine cities targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2020 in an effort to crack down on violent crime. In 2023, the city tied a record with 182 homicides, most of which involved firearms.