Crews clean up at Kansas City shooting scene
NBC News
Crews began cleaning up the scene of the Kansas City shooting that took place at the Chiefs’ victory parade. At least one person was killed and 22 others were injured.
‘My bag saved my life,’ Kansas City shooting witness says
NBC News
A witness described fleeing the Kansas City shooting that took place at the Chiefs’ victory parade. Bridget Barton showed the backpack she was wearing at the time of the shooting and explained that it saved her from the backfire of bullets.
Chairs spell out 'KC Strong' in front of Union Station day after shooting
NBC News
'Please breathe': Chiefs coach Andy Reid reportedly comforted panicked teen amid chaos
Daniel Arkin
Andy Reid, the head coach who drove the Kansas City Chiefs to victory at the Super Bowl over the weekend, helped console a teenager who appeared distressed after shots rang out near Union Station yesterday, according to a new report in the Kansas City Star.
Gabe Wallace told the newspaper that he heard gunshots — "boom, boom, like real quick" – and then ran for cover. He tried to clamber over a barricade, but his foot got stuck and his face hit the concrete. When he got up, a security guard pointed him inside Union Station. Reid, who had just spoken on a stage outside, saw Wallace and tried to offer solace.
"Andy Reid was trying to comfort me, which was nice," the high school student told the newspaper, his voice breaking and eyes welling up with tears. "He was kind of hugging me, just like, 'Are you OK, man? Are you OK? Just please breathe.' He was being real nice and everything."
Reid eventually went to go check on other people, said Wallace, who declined an NBC News interview request. Inside the station, he grew increasingly worried that his friends who joined him at the parade had been shot dead. It would be another half hour before Wallace and his friend Hank Hunter reunited outside on what would have been the parade route's last stop.
Witness describes fleeing chaotic scene, climbing fence after hearing 'popping noises'
Minyvonne Burke
Janelle Duncan, a longtime Chiefs fan who has attended every Super Bowl victory parade for the team, had to climb over a fence to escape what she described as a chaotic scene.
"We just heard a bunch of popping noises ... and people started scurrying around," Duncan said. "Some people were yelling, ‘Duck,’ and, ‘Run, there’s a shooter!'"
"Someone was yelling that a lady got shot. And then another guy was yelling, ‘Come on you guys, it’s fireworks. False alarm.’ We were just trying to get out of there as quickly as possible, but everybody was running in different directions," she said in a phone interview.
“Nobody could move more than a few inches at a time,” she continued. "There was a big tall fence and everybody pushed and pushed until they could knock the fence partway down and then we all climbed up it."
Before shots rang out, Duncan, of Kansas City, said the atmosphere was “completely peaceful." The 52-year-old, who was at the parade with a friend, said she did not notice anything odd before the shooting.
"It was tons of excitement in the air. Everyone was doing what they could to get a good glimpse of the players and cheer them on as they went by," she recalled. "It was great yesterday, until that at the end."
Duncan praised law enforcement for quickly taking the suspects into custody. She also said several fans in the crowd worked together to get people to safety.
"There were moms holding babies that were scared to death so a lot of us were trying to protect them. One in particular, she was trying to hold her little boy’s hand and they kept almost getting separated … so we were trying to hold our arms so she wasn’t getting knocked into," she said. "People were really being kind and helpful and trying to help people that were more vulnerable."
All victims at Children's Mercy Hospital expected to recover
Debra Jones
Children’s Mercy Hospital received 12 patients from the rally, 11 of whom are children ranging from 6 to 15 years old, and nine of the children had been shot, a spokesperson for the Kansas City hospital said.
All the victims are expected to recover, the spokesperson said. Three of them are still being treated at the hospital and all others have been released.
Police had earlier said the age range of the victims began at 8 years old. The reason for the discrepancy between police and the hospital is unclear at this point.
Union Station, site of the shooting, staying closed today
Will Ujek
Representatives for Union Station in downtown Kansas City, the location of yesterday's deadly shooting, said the building will remain closed today. Only essential staff will be on site.
The tentative plan is to reopen the building tomorrow morning.
At least half of the victims are under age 16
Daniel Arkin
The more than 20 people injured during yesterday's shooting range in age from 8 to 47, and at least half are under the age of 16, Kansas City's police chief told reporters at this morning's news conference.
Children's Mercy Hospital later said the age range for victims began at 6 years old. The reason for the discrepancy between police and the hospital is unclear at this point.
Shooting resulted from 'dispute between several people,' 2 juveniles in custody
Daniel Arkin
Yesterday's shooting came amid what "appeared to be a dispute between several people that ended in gunfire," Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves told reporters today.
Graves said that people were in custody in connection with the shooting, two of whom are juveniles. Police issued a statement after the briefing saying that only said the two juveniles were in custody.
Several firearms were recovered, Graves said.
At least one person is dead and 22 others were injured in the shooting. The police chief said investigators have not found any link to terrorism or homegrown extremism.
Biden renews call for new gun measures
Nnamdi Egwuonwu
Daniel Arkin
President Joe Biden again called on Congress to enact tighter national gun measures, asking rhetorically on X: "How many more families need to be torn apart?"
5 gunshot patients discharged from hospital, 3 remain in critical condition
Karen Cortes
Daniel Arkin
Five of the people who were being treated for gunshot wounds at the University Health hospital have been discharged, the medical center said today.
Eight patients with gunshot injuries were brought to the hospital yesterday. Two of them remain in critical condition, and one was in stable condition as of this morning.
The hospital also received four patients with non-gunshot injuries. Three of them have been discharged.
Elsewhere, St. Luke's Hospital said today it had one gunshot wound patient still in critical condition and that four walk-in patients with minor injuries from fleeing the scene were all treated and released.
Remnants of celebration remain at scene of shooting
Antonio Planas
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The scene is quiet this morning on Main Street by Union Station, where yesterday’s violence unfolded.
The station was adorned with three giant banners proclaiming the Chiefs as Super Bowl champions.
Remnants of the celebration were scattered about, including folding chairs, blankets, clothes, food and bottles of various beverages, seemingly where crowds took off and left things behind as the gunshots erupted.
Workers picked up garbage, including red and yellow confetti. A handful of police cars monitored the street that was blocked off in multiple directions to the general public.
Victim killed at parade was there with Chiefs fan son
NBC News
The person fatally shot at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory paradehas been identified as Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a popular local radio DJ who was attending the celebration with her son, a fan of the Chiefs. NBC News’ Ellison Barber reports on the response from her station, KKFI.
Shooter was 'spinning and shooting in a circle,' says family with three members who survived being shot
Patrick Smith
A man who was shot at the Chiefs' victory celebration yesterday, along with his wife and son, says his family saw someone spinning in a circle and spraying bullets into the crowd.
Jacob Gooch from Leavenworth, Kansas, told CBS Mornings about his terrifying ordeal: His 13-year-old son was shot in his foot and still has a bullet lodged there; his wife was shot in the calf, which the bullet passed straight through, while he was shot in the ankle and suffered a couple of broken bones.
"I haven't even begun to process this morning. It's just crazy. We're all still in shock right now," he said. "I personally did not see the shooter. I heard the altercation of a girl who said like, 'You don't do it [the shooting] out here, this is stupid,' or something like that. And then the gunshots, which at the time I thought were fireworks.
"My wife and daughter saw the shooter come out ... she said she saw some lady pulling him back and people had started backing up and then he pulled it out and started spinning and shooting in a circle."
Gooch said the family had discussed the possibility of there being some form of attack. "We actually talked about it, I said 'It's just a bunch of happy people, nothing's gonna happen,'" he said.
About 15 minutes before the celebration was over, Gooch said, he saw a group dressed in black, who then disappeared into the crowd, but said he didn't catch a glimpse of any shooter during the actual attack.
At least two gunshot victims are in a critical condition, hospital says
Patrick Smith
At least two people shot outside Union Station during the Chiefs' victory celebrations yesterday are in critical condition in the hospital, hospitals confirmed today.
University Health said in a statement before 9:30 a.m. ET that eight people were being treated there for gunshot wounds, while four others are bring treated for other injuries.
"The victims brought here from the Union Station incident are being treated by the best trauma specialists in the city.All of our hearts go out to the victims and their families," it said in a statement.
Separately, Saint Luke's Hospital said today it was treating four people with minor injuries and one with a gunshot wound. In an earlier update, the hospital said the gunshot victim was in a critical condition.
