AGI – One dead and 21 injured. The victim was a woman, but children and young people were also injured. They were all defenseless, helpless and distracted by an event like the Super Bowl, and no one ever imagined that all hell would break loose in Kansas City yesterday afternoon during the Kansas City Chiefs' celebratory parade. Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, which accepts patients up to age 17, said it treated 12 people – 11 of them children, nine for gunshot wounds – after the shooting, which occurred shortly after the Chiefs players were outside a major Cheering crowd spoke fans gathered nearby.
Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a mother of two and disc jockey, was injured in the stomach. “She was the most beautiful and wonderful person there could be – said a friend about her – she played music at all our weddings. She was a girl full of life.”
Of the 22 people injured in the shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs' celebration parade, 11 were between the ages of 6 and 15. None of their lives are in danger. That's what leaders at Children's Mercy Hospital said.
“There is something so American and depressing about a shooting to celebrate the Super Bowl and the anniversary of another massacre,” said March for Our Lives to X, the student organization fighting for stricter gun laws in the United States . The reference refers to the anniversary of the massacre in Parkland, Florida, when on another February 14, but in 2018, seventeen people were killed.
“The tragedy that occurred today breaks my heart. My thoughts are with everyone who celebrated with us and was affected. Kansas City, you mean everything to me.” This is the message posted on X from Travis Kelce, one of the stars of the Super Bowl-winning Chiefs. Kelce, boyfriend of pop star Traylor Swift, is followed on the social network by 1.2 million followers.
US Vice President Kamala Harris has called on Congress to pass “sensible gun safety laws”. The call comes after the shooting that occurred this afternoon in Kansas City, Missouri, when some people fired shots into the crowd that had gathered to celebrate the Chiefs football champions.
“The reality is that much of this can be avoided if members of legislatures, including those in the U.S. Congress, have the courage to pass common-sense security legislation,” Harris told reporters.
US President Joe Biden has again called on Congress to take action against gun violence. “With Jill, we pray for those killed and injured in Kansas City today and for our country to find the resolve to end this senseless epidemic of gun violence that is destroying us,” the President of the United States said in a statement from the White House .