Kansas City Parade Shooting, tragedy struck in Kansas City, Missouri, on a day meant for celebration and jubilation. The Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs had just concluded their victory parade when gunshots rang out near Union Station. The aftermath left one person dead and at least 21 others wounded. The festive atmosphere turned sombre as emergency responders rushed to the scene, treating victims and securing the area.

Bullets ripped through crowds of spectators following a Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade attended by tens of thousands Wednesday, killing one and injuring at least 21 others in the nation’s latest shooting assault at a major sports or concert venue.

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Kansas City Parade Shooting: Leaves One Dead

Lopez-Galvan, whose DJ name was “Lisa G,” was an extrovert 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 company. Izurieta said Lopez-Galvan attended the parade with her husband and adult son. This die-hard Kansas City sports fan was also shot.
“She’s the type of person who would jump in front of a bullet for anybody — that would be Lisa,” Izurieta said.

Kansas City, Missouri, police confirmed shots were fired west of Union Station at around 2 p.m. local time. Interim Fire Chief Ross Grundyson said at a news conference that 22 people suffered gunshot wounds, including one fatality, eight with immediately life-threatening injuries, seven with life-threatening injuries, and six with minor injuries.

The shooting is simply the most recent example of how gun violence has disturbed American society in formerly safe areas. This one was at a large-scale sporting event. Others have visited hospitals, college campuses, home parties, supermarkets, churches, schools, and outlet malls. Two persons were shot in June 2023 as spectators left an NBA victory celebration for the Denver Nuggets.
Twelve victims from the event were admitted to Children’s Mercy Hospital, as stated by Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer Stephanie Meyer. Eleven of those are kids, ranging in age from six to fifteen. According to spokeswoman Lisa Augustine, all nine of the youngsters who were shot are anticipated to recover.

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A celebration marred

Madison Anderes, 24, said she thought fireworks were going off, but a man in front of them turned and yelled, 

“He’s got a gun. He’s got a gun.”

She said she heard more pops; these were louder.

“That’s when all chaos broke out,” Anderes, who was knocked down on the ground when everyone started running, said. “I felt like I was going to die. I felt like a sitting duck and I was going to get shot.”

Kansas City Parade Shooting: President Joe Biden Briefed

President Joe Biden said today’s shooting “cuts deep in the American soul” and should spur voters to call on Congress to take action on gun measures.

“Today’s events should move us, shock us, shame us into acting,” he said in a lengthy statement. “We know what we have to do, we just need the courage to do it.”

Biden, who noted that today is the sixth anniversary of the Parkland mass shooting in Florida, renewed his calls for Congress to pass stricter gun laws, including a ban on assault weapons.

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas pointed to one leading cause:

Asked how a shooting could take place at an event with more than 800 law enforcement officers and tight security, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas pointed to one leading cause.

“I mean, that’s — that’s what happens with guns,” Lucas said at a news conference hours after the deadly shooting, which wounded more than 20 people, including children.

“We had over 800 officers there staffed, situated all around Union Station today. We had security in any number of places. Eyes on top of buildings and beyond. And there is still a risk to people,” Lucas said.

“And I think that’s something that all of us who are parents, who are just regular people living each day, have to decide what we wish to do about it,” he said.

Lucas praised police and other law enforcement officers, saying they worked “tremendously hard” at the Super Bowl victory parade, and he echoed the police chief’s comments that officers ran toward danger.

“But in a manner of seconds, someone who wants to disrupt anything, someone who wants to create any type of situation or someone who’s very simply reckless can change not just one life or two lives but almost two dozen,” Lucas said.

“And that to me is absolutely devastating, and it makes me feel vastly more concerned as a parent just in the world today thinking about that,” he said.