AFP Police in action after the shooting in Kansas City
NOS Nieuws•gisteren, 02:21
Two men are facing murder charges following last week’s shooting in Kansas City. A woman was killed and 22 people were injured.
The shooting happened at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory celebration. Tens of thousands had gathered at Union Station in Kansas City. Eight children were injured in the shooting. Three minors were arrested immediately afterwards. The two men now suspected of murder were later arrested.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the two men did not know each other. Dominic Miller and Lyndell Mays were in a group of people who got into a verbal altercation, the prosecutor reports. According to police, the argument started when two groups stared at each other and confronted each other. “Mays almost immediately pulled his gun and others did the same,” the prosecutor said. Police say the bullet that killed the woman came from Miller’s gun. The fatality, Lisa Lopez-Galvan, was not part of the group but was in the audience watching the celebration.
Children
Mays told police in his interrogation that he hesitated to shoot “because there were children around,” but that he eventually shot because someone from the other group said “I’m going to get you.” In his interrogation, he said he chose to shoot a random person from the other group who was running away. Both accused men were also injured during the shooting.
The exact ages of Miller and Mays are still unknown. According to court documents, Mays is about 20 years old and Miller is 18 or 19. Of the three minor suspects arrested, two are still in custody. The police have not ruled out further arrests.
Missouri, the state where Kansas City is located, is a state with relatively few gun laws. For example, a background check is not necessary to purchase a gun and people do not need a permit to walk around in public with a gun.
