Kansas City shooting investigation progresses
As the days progress, more details are emerging about the shooting in Kansas City at a Chiefs championship celebration.
Police are working to determine who opened fire and what prompted a shooting that killed one person and injured more than 20 citizens at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory rally.
Dozens of fans dressed in red jerseys ran, took cover or tended to others on the ground as law enforcement invaded the area, with confetti still fluttering in the wind.
Before the shooting in Kansas City an estimated one million people had gathered within walking distance of Union Station in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, for the parade and celebration of the Chiefs’ championship victory on Wednesday.
The players were still on stage when chaos erupted with the sound of gunfire. Several people were shot, including children, authorities said.
Three people were arrested when officers arrived on the scene, according to Kansas City Police Chief, Stacey Graves.
Graves added that weapons were recovered at the scene, but did not specify how many. As of Wednesday evening, no charges had been announced and no suspects had been named.
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Kansas City shooting investigation progresses
As the investigation progresses, several questions remain unanswered: how many people opened fire during the event, how many shots were fired and what prompted the violence that turned a day of celebration into a tragedy.
At least 1 person dead, 22 injured in shooting at Kansas City Chiefs parade.
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“We don’t have a motive, but we are asking those who may have any kind of information, a witness or a video, to contact police,” the police chief said at a news conference on Wednesday.
The shooting in Kansas City marked the latest scenario in which Americans saw a sense of security affected by gun violence, following shootings at churches, schools, grocery shops, shopping malls and other locations.
Wednesday’s violence was at least the 48th mass shooting in the United States so far this year, according to Gun Violence Archive, which like CNN defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot, not including the attacker.
“I am angry about what happened today,” the Kansas City police chief said Wednesday.
“The people who attended this celebration expected a safe environment.”
Children’s Mercy Hospital received 11 wounded children.
Police are collecting physical and digital evidence from the Kansas City shooting, interviewing witnesses and asking some questions of the victims, Graves said.
The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives came to Kansas City to assist local police, according to a Justice Department spokesman.
Authorities are still working to determine the total number of victims in the Kansas City shooting, Graveseste said Wednesday.
CNN spoke to four hospitals that together received 29 patients from the shooting, 19 of them with gunshot wounds.
Children’s Mercy Hospital received 11 children between the ages of six and 15 from the shooting scene, including nine who were shot, according to hospital spokeswoman Lisa Augustine.
President Joe Biden said in a statement that the Super Bowl victory should have been a happy occasion.
