Kansas City Shooting: One person died and 22 were injured in a mass shooting during the celebration of Kansas city’s super bowl win. 9 among the injured are said to be children.

The injured children are being treated at the Children’s Mercy hospital. The children are said to be between 6 and 15 years old. By Friday injured children were said to be stable and sent back home.

The dead person has been identified in a Facebook post as DJ Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a mother of two. She was a radio presenter of a show named Taste of Tejano. She worked with the KKFI station. Her son was also shot but is said to be stable.

Two men, Trey Filter and Paul Contreras had fought, tackled and pinned down one person holding the gun.

More than 800 police officers were in the area of the Union Station for the victory rally when the shooting started.

“I’m angry at what happened today,” Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said at a press conference after the shooting. She said that three people have been taken into custody. Initially she did not reveal any further details about the people taken into custody. Three people were detained, later on upon further investigation an adult was released and two juveniles were charged. Investigators recovered guns from the shooting site.

As per the Jackson County Family Court two juveniles had been detained on gun related and resisting arrest charges.

Police were looking for witnesses and asked people who have captured the videos to come forward and assist the police. Police had initially believed personal enmity to be the reason behind the shooting and there didn’t  seem to be an angle of terrorism. The Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office had set up counselling for the traumatised.

Later after the investigation, two men were charged with murder and other felony charges for their roles in the mass shooting after a Kansas City Chiefs championship rally last week, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said Tuesday.

Lyndell Mays, of Raytown, and Dominic M. Miller, of Kansas City, were both charged with second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action, the prosecutor’s office said. They are being held on $1 million bond. It seems the main culprits of the Kansas City shooting spree are finally in the police net.

According to the investigation, Mays had an argument with another person that took a violent turn, and Mays then pulled out a handgun. Almost immediately, Miller and others pulled their guns, and the deadly shooting started, Baker said. The two did not know each other before that day, Baker said. Miller’s firearm is the one that killed Lopez Galvan.

These two defendants are not the same as the two teenagers who face gun-related and resisting arrest charges and are in secure detention at the Juvenile Detention Center. Additional arrests are possible, Baker said.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and his wife were in attendance when the shooting happened near the train station, but were safe following the incident, he said in a message posted to X. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly was also present at the rally when the shots were fired. Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas was not far away, she was inside Union Station at the time.

“I was there with my wife. I was there with my mother. We never would have thought that we along with Chiefs players, along with fans, hundreds of thousands of people would be forced to run for our safety today,” he told reporters at the press conference alongside Graves.

From the White House:

After being briefed about the shooting incident the White House officials have been in touch with the law enforcement.

Biden said: The shooting “cuts deep in the American soul” and called on people to press Congress to ban assault weapons, to limit high-capacity gun magazines and for other gun measures that have been rejected by Republicans.

“Today’s events should move us, shock us, shame us into acting. What are we waiting for?” he said.

Biden noted that Wednesday was the anniversary of the 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people and said there have been more mass shootings in 2024 “than there have been days in the year.”

This incident of Kansas City shooting is not an exception. There were 182 people killed in Kansas City last year, surpassing a previous high in 2020. With a population of just over 500,000, Kansas City has one of the highest murder rates in the nation.

Meanwhile the people of Kansas are organising prayer meets and religious gatherings to come out of the shock following the Wednesday shooting.

The Kansas City and the United Way of Greater Kansas City launched KC Strong, a fund to support the victims and their families of the Kansas City Shooting. They said they contributed $200000 to the fund.

Taylor Swift donated $100000 to the GoFundMe for the Lopez-Galvan family.