Kansas City shooting latest: Police reveal dispute led up to shooting as two juvenile subjects questioned

Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said at a press conference on Thursday that half of the victims shot in the attack are children while one victim – a 43-year-old mother-of-two – died.

Elizabeth “Lisa” Lopez-Galvan adult son and cousins, believed to be minors, also may have been wounded in the shooting, The Kansas City Star reported.

Beto Lopez, the victim’s brother, told ABC News that his sister “loved her family” and had a “life-of-the-party” personality.

“She was dearly loved in this community and gave a lot back,” Mr Lopez said.

Lopez-Galvan worked as a local DJ, with her radio station KKFI also confirming her death in a statement on Wednesday evening.

“It is with sincere sadness and an extremely heavy and broken heart that we let our community know that KKFI DJ Lisa Lopez-Galvan, host of Taste of Tejano lost her life today in the shooting at the KC Chiefs’ rally,” the station said.

Katie Hawkinson reports:

A survivor of the Kansas City ChiefsSuper Bowl parade shooting recounted the moments before gunfire in an interview with CBS Mornings.

Jacob Gooch said he heard a woman say, presumably to the shooter, “don’t do it.”

“I personally did not see the shooter,” Mr Gooch said. “I heard the altercation of a girl or some girls like ‘don’t do it, not here this is stupid’ or something like that. And then the gunshots, which at the time I thought were fireworks.”

Mr Gooch was shot in the ankle, his wife was shot in the calf, and his son was shot in the foot, he said.

The survivor also told CBS Mornings that he saw a group of suspicious people before gunshots rang out, though he was not sure if they were actually connected to the attack.

“I mean, I got suspicious of a certain group of people that were there,” Mr Gooch said. “We were standing on the left side of the stage when the shooting ended up happening. And right before it ended up happening, there was this group dressed in all black. About four, five, six kids with black on, black masks.”

“They disappeared into the crowd and then the show ended and as soon as we started walking around, it happened,” he continued.

Trey Filter was standing among a sea of around one million people who lined the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade route on Wednesday when he heard the shots ring out.

The lifelong Chiefs fan initially thought it was firecrackers going off, before a sense of panic swept through the crowd.

“There was a huge commotion. It felt like there was a rat loose or something,” he told The Independent in a phone interview on Thursday morning.

Mr Filter, who was attending Wednesday’s victory parade with his wife Casey and their sons Gage, 15, and Levi, 12, said dozens of crowdgoers began rushing past them.

He heard the crowd yelling “get him, get him”, and turned around to see a “flash” as a person ran past.

Bevan Hurley reports:

Ten-year-old Samuel Arellano kept telling his family he’d been hit after shots rang out Wednesday near Kansas City’s Union Station. He’d come to the parade with his grandfather, aunt and uncle, all of them massive Kansas City Chiefs fans, and they’d been reveling in the day and their Chiefs jerseys.

Samuel was particularly thrilled to see the players in person, addressing the crowd from microphones at the Union Station rally; Patrick Mahomes is his favourite.

Soon, though, the elation of the day was marred by gunshots – and Samuel felt a biting pain under his arm as training from the active shooter drills at school kicked in.

“When I heard the gunshots, I hid,” he told The Independent Thursday morning. “I fell to the ground and then hid behind a trashcan.”

Sheila Flynn reports:

Donald Trump boasted that he did “nothing” to alter the Second Amendment during his time as president – just hours after a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade left one person dead and dozens more injured.

Joe Sommerlad reports:

Kansas City Police Department Chief Stacey Graves praised the effort by law enforcement officials and civilians at the onset of the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl shooting on Wednesday.

“The law enforcement response was exemplary,” Ms Graves said on Thursday during a press conference.

“Those in attendance also responded,” Ms Graves said. “They helped one another and even physically stopped a person who was believed to be involved in the incident.”

Attendees rushed to tackle an individual they believed to be involved in the shooting as soon as it began occurring. It is unclear if that person was detained by police or if they were involved in the incident.

A security guard who was working at Union Station has described the “chaos” that ensued when gunfire set off panic in the crowd at the Kansas City Chiefs‘ Super Bowl parade.

Stephanie Sommerkamp, 59, was acting as a non-armed observer for the celebration when the shooting began outside Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, in the early afternoon of 14 February.

“All of a sudden, people were screaming ‘they’re shooting, they’re shooting!’ and running into Union Station. That was chaos,” Ms Sommerkamp, who is a registered nurse, told The Independent. “There was a lot of people out there, and they just started flooding in... so I dove behind the stone wall where I was stationed. We had no idea what was going on, if shooters were coming in.”

Io Dodds reports:

President Joe Biden said that the shooting in Kansas City should motivate Congress to “finally act” to enact stricter gun control measures to prevent shootings from occurring in the future.

On X, the president wrote: “Yesterday’s events in Kansas City should move us into action. How many more families need to be torn apart? It’s time for Congress to finally act to ban assault weapons, limit high-capacity magazines, strengthen background checks, and keep guns out of the hands of those who have no business owning them.”

Kansas City Police Department said that the shooting may have arisen out of a dispute between people but did not clarify what weapons were used or how the shooters were able to access the firearms. An investigation is still underway

Kansas City Police Department Chief, Stacey Graves, said that the shooting on Wednesday appeared to have arisen from a dispute between several people.

“This appeared to be a dispute between several people that ended in gunfire,” Ms Graves said on Thursday.

Three individuals are currently detained by the police department, two of which are juveniles. Law enforcement individuals have 24 hours until they must deliver charges or release the individuals.

Ms Graves said they had “all intentions of presenting charges.”

In a press conference on Thursday morning, Kansas City Police Department Chief, Stacey Graves, said that more than half of the 22 gunshot wound victims are under the age of 16 years old.

The victims range in age from eight years old to 47 years old.