Two suspects have been charged in connection with the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade.
The Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl for the second year in a row on Sunday.
While the victory happened in Las Vegas, fans back in Kansas City couldn’t wait to celebrate the big win.
Sadly, the celebration was cut short due to a mass shooting at the celebratory parade.
The shooting left one person dead and 22 others injured.
Two juvenile suspects have been charged in connection with Wednesday’s mass shooting at the Super Bowl parade.
According to the 16th Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri’s Jackson County Family Court Division, the two suspects–who are not being named due to their ages–are being held on gun-related charges and resisting arrest.
Officials also say additional charges are expected as the investigation continues.
“We regularly work with juvenile court officers on cases and we have worked with them on this case as well,” Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said in a statement.
Baker continued, “Though we do not oversee or supervise the juvenile officers, we work closely with them. We expect to be at future hearings regarding theses individuals who were charged today in Family Court.”
The motive
The shooting happened outside Union Station as Chiefs fans were leaving the parade, and appeared to stem from a dispute, according to police.
Initially, three people were detained as suspects in the shooting but the third person — also a juvenile — has since been determined not to be involved with the shooting and was released from police custody.
Several guns were recovered, police said.
To make the situation all the more tragic, at least half of the victims involved in the mass shooting are under the age of 16, Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said.
Children’s Mercy Hospital said it received 11 children, ranging in age from 6 to 15.
Hospital officials did not specify if the 6-year-old was wounded by gunfire or if they were injured in the resulting chaos.
In total, nine of the children taken to Mercy Hospital had been shot, officials said. Three of them remained at the hospital on Friday.
All of those victims are expected to make a full recovery, officials said.
University Health said it received eight gunshot patients, including two who remained in critical condition on Thursday.
44-year-old Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a DJ at local radio station KKFI 90.1 FM, was killed in the shooting.
Lopez leaves behind her husband and two young children.
“This senseless act has taken a beautiful person from her family and this KC Community,” the radio station said in a statement Wednesday.
“We woke up this morning excited and the last thing we ever expected was to have a tragedy in our family,” her brother, Beto Lopez, told ABC News.