The city of Kansas City continues to heal and look for answers after a shooting spree during the Chiefs Super Bowl parade left one person dead and 22 injured on Valentine’s Day. Two juveniles have been arrested and charged with the shootings, but authorities are still looking for anyone who may have had a hand in the tragedy. There were numerous children injured, and popular radio DJ Lisa Lopez-Galvan was killed during the shooting, which local officials are calling a “dispute” between the parties.
Kansas City police Chief Stacey Graves said: “I am grateful for the charges against the two juveniles who hurt innocent people, simultaneously scarring an entire community.” She further said that investigators “will not relent until everyone who may have played a part in these crimes is apprehended so that they may be punished to the fullest extent of the law.”
Little information has been revealed since the two alleged shooters arrested thus far are juveniles, but one of the heroes who sprung into action and detained a suspect is speaking out about what led him to take matters into his own hands. Chief fan Trey Filter recalled hearing someone yell, “Get him!” seconds after shots rang out, sending parade attendees fleeing for cover.
Filter recalled seeing a flash of white from the corner of his eye before he and his wife sprung into action. He recalled: “My brain tells me, ‘That must be him.’ I literally remember when I was tackling him, ‘I sure hope this is who they were yelling at me to get.’ Because I just went, ‘Boom!’ … I really don’t recall seeing him coming.” In a viral video, the young father can be seen leaping on the alleged shooter as others piled on to keep him from fleeing into the crowd.
As Filter and others held the suspect down, Filter’s wife, Casey, went for the gun that the suspect dropped in the struggle. Filter believed the weapon was an assault-style rifle, but Kansas City police have not confirmed that report. The hero dad continued: “I don’t know if I knocked him out when I tackled him or what, but I had him squeezed so hard, he might have been passed out all the time for all I know. I just started racking him in his ribs.”
As another bystander pummeled the suspect’s face, Filter recalled hearing bystanders yelling that the suspect had a gun. Unaware that his wife had already secured the weapon, Filter searched the downed alleged shooter. He said: “I was just yelling, ‘F your gun!’ and I was just hitting him in his ribs. It was great. You know, America stuff.”
Police quickly arrived on the scene and arrested the subdued suspect. Filter emerged from the scrum to a round of applause. Filter and his wife had taken their two kids out of school for the day to attend the celebration, and as they heard the shots, questioned whether it was gunshots or firecrackers. He recalls saying to his kids, “Get your mother, we’re getting the f–k out of here.”
The quick action of Trey Filter, his wife Casey, and other bystanders may have saved lives. The tragedy in Kansas City was senseless and just another opportunity for Democrats to politicize gun violence in an attempt to subvert the Second Amendment. This incident underscores the need for stiffer penalties for gun violence and the need for everyday Americans to stay vigilant and, if given the opportunity, put the hurt on offending criminals.
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