Kansas City shooting stemmed from personal dispute, officials say

The deadly shooting that turned a celebration for the Kansas City Chiefs into a tragedy on Wednesday appeared to stem from a dispute among several people and had “no nexus to terrorism or homegrown violent extremism,” officials said Thursday morning.

One person was killed and at least 22 were injured at a rally after a parade Wednesday celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs’ win at the Super Bowl. The shooting occurred about 2 p.m. amid a crowd of fans outside the city’s Union Station as the parade and rally for the Super Bowl champions drew to a close. At the sound of gunfire, people fled in every direction while police and first responders began swarming the scene. A man tackled a suspect in the crowd. The three people were taken into custody a short time later.

Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a radio DJ and host of “A Taste of Tejano” on Kansas City radio station KKFI, was killed in the shooting, Tommy Andrade, a family friend and co-host of the show, told The Washington Post. Andrade said Lopez-Galvan’s husband, Mike, informed him of her death. In a statement, the station called her death a “senseless act.”

The shooting is the latest high-profile example of the entrenched problem of gun violence in the United States. President Biden said Wednesday that the shooting in Kansas City should “shock us” into acting to limit gun violence.

Lucas, the Kansas City mayor, said he was “heartbroken.”

Kansas City last year recorded 185 homicides, making 2023 the city’s deadliest year ever. Mayor Quinton Lucas said the “biggest challenge” is the modification of firearms as well as “the ongoing presence of semiautomatic weapons.”

“We are seeing more things with a lot of people getting hit, even unintentionally. I’m not going to get ahead of the facts here, but it is something that I think is a very real concern,” he said.

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