One of the gunmen who allegedly opened fire during the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade on Wednesday “kept fighting” as he was tackled and subdued by football fans, a heroic witness said.
Paul Contreras pushed the alleged assailant before law enforcement intervened. Tell CNN The gunman was preparing to spar, only to react to the horrific gunfight that unfolded in front of him, leaving one man dead and 22 injured.
“He came at me, so I got the right angle on him and hit him from behind. And when I hit him from behind, I shook the gun out of his hand or sleeve. Because as I was getting him to the ground, I saw the gun on the ground,” Contreras recalled.
Contreras said he and another good Samaritan put their weight on top of the alleged gunman and tried to subdue him as he tried to flee.
“We were fighting each other. He was trying to stand up while I was holding him down. Then another person helped me up. And for what seemed like a long time… But it was probably 15 or 30 seconds,” Contreras recalled.
“He’s just fighting to get back on his feet,” he said. “But we’re fighting to keep him down. Just because he had one gun, we didn’t want him to wake up and run away. Maybe he was wearing that big, bulky jacket. There may be some.”
Contreras said he never saw the suspect fire a gun and didn’t know he had a gun on him until someone yelled into the crowd and tackled him. Stated.
The man was taken to police after the struggle, but Contreras said he was in a state of shock and said the man and his three daughters sat at the scene for a while before returning home.
It is unclear whether the person Contreras tackled was one of the three people Kansas City police said were detained after the shooting.
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Trey Filter, a resident of Witchita, Kansas, told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo that he heard people yelling for the suspect to be tackled.
“I turned around and I saw a flash of light and I said to myself, ‘I hope that’s him.’ There was nothing, really. I didn’t see him coming,” he said. “All I remember is I barely saw the guy. And I couldn’t believe I caught him. And I just thought, ‘Oh, that’s him. I hope so.” I was thinking. Because there was too much going on.
Filter added that he and other good Samaritans were “overjoyed to know they had caught him.”
Filter’s wife, Casey, moved the gun out of reach after the suspect was dropped off.
“I never thought it would be right at my feet,” she said. “I just looked at it and just moved it.”
