Police reply after photographs had been reportedly fired close to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ Tremendous Bowl LVIII victory parade on February 14, 2024. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
The Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, police division has revealed additional particulars in regards to the Wednesday, February 14, taking pictures through the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ Tremendous Bowl parade.
One particular person has died, with 9 extra folks injured, the police revealed, in keeping with ABC Information.
The Chiefs soccer crew had paraded via downtown KC on Wednesday to have a good time their Tremendous Bowl LVIII victory. Amid the fanfare, which featured speeches from Coach Andy Reid, quarterback Patrick Mahomes, tight finish Travis Kelce and extra, it was reported by the police that “photographs [had] been fired round Union Station.”
Regulation enforcement officers famous that photographs had been fired “west of Union Station” and “a number of folks had been struck.” Two armed assailants had been taken into custody because the police launched an investigation.
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“Officers are working to clear Union Station itself. We’ll launch everybody contained in the constructing as soon as that’s full,” a police assertion by way of X learn. “We’re nonetheless making an attempt to find out the variety of taking pictures victims. … Anybody close by wants to depart the realm as rapidly and safely as doable to facilitate therapy of the taking pictures victims. Please keep away from the Union Station parking storage space to permit first responders via.”
Further attendees instantly fled the scene for security.
A sufferer is aided after photographs had been fired close to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ Tremendous Bowl LVIII victory parade on February 14, 2024. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AF
“We had been on the point of depart, the rally had simply ended, and we had been strolling again towards … the place we had come from to search for an Uber once we heard screams,” attendee Dana Brady, who introduced her daughter, informed a reporter for the Kansas Metropolis Star on Wednesday. “There have been all these folks crying and operating in direction of us. So, I simply put my arms round my daughter and we pushed via the gang.”
Brady recalled that guests had been serving to one another climb over the barricades, which had been positioned for crowd management on the occasion.
Each the governors of Missouri and Kansas had been in attendance on the parade.
“On the finish of the Chiefs rally, photographs had been fired close to Union Station. I’ve been evacuated and am out of hurt’s manner,” Laura Kelly, the governor of Kansas, wrote in an X assertion. “I encourage everybody to observe directions and updates from @kcpolice. Please keep protected.”
Missouri’s governor, Mike Parson, had attended together with his spouse and famous that the twosome are “protected and safe.”
“As we wait to be taught extra, our hearts exit to the victims,” a press release learn on X.
