Gunfire in Kansas City at the Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade. The toll is one dead and 22 injured – five of them seriously and three critically – according to what fire brigade sources announced. City police chief Stacey Graves ruled out that children were among those hit. Police said they arrested three people, of which at least 2 were armed. Around a million people were expected to attend the celebrations.
“At the end of the parade they were there shots fired west of Union Station near the garage and several people were hit,” said a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department, Jake Becchina, who urged people in the area “to leave the area quickly and safely and to avoid going to the car park to facilitate treatment for the injured”.
The players, coaches and staff of the Chiefs, assured Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, “are all well and safe.” The shots occurred when the players had already left the stage. “We received a phone call from the White House offering us all federal assistance in the investigation,” Lucas told reporters.
Investigations are underway to ascertain the circumstances of the shooting, but, as reported by police sources to ABC, for now there would be no indication that it would have been an act of terrorism or politically motivated. President Joe BidenWhite House sources said, “has been notified of the shooting and will continue to receive updates“.
“The investigations are still at the beginning” reiterated the Kansas City police chief, specifying that “work is still being done to clean up the areas surrounding” those where the shots were fired.
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