Two elementary school sisters were among nearly 20 people injured in a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory parade earlier this week, family and friends said.
Fourth- and third-graders Madison and Melia Reyes were shot and killed Wednesday when gunshots rang out at the end of an NFL team’s victory celebration outside the city’s landmark Union Station. kansas city star report.
A GoFundMe page set up for Reyes’ family says: “The girls were celebrating with many other family members when they suffered senseless injuries.”
The woman killed in the shooting was Lisa López-Gabran, the mother’s cousin, the newspaper said.
Officials with St. Agnes Catholic Parish, which oversees the school, said the sisters underwent surgery at Children’s Mercy Hospital on Wednesday night and are now recovering.
It was not immediately clear the extent of his injuries or where he was shot.
Meanwhile, investigators are still trying to determine the exact perpetrator of Wednesday’s shooting that killed López-Gabran and injured 22 others, many of them under the age of 16. The authorities have announced that.
A total of 11 children were rushed to children’s hospitals, nine with gunshot wounds, officials said.
Police quickly ruled out terrorism, saying the shooting was likely the result of a personal dispute that escalated into violence, and that three people who may have been at fault were detained.
Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said Thursday that two of the three suspects are juveniles.
“We are working to determine the involvement of others and should note that we have recovered several firearms…This incident is still a very active investigation,” she said. Stated.
The shooting derailed what was supposed to be a joyous celebration to mark the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Wednesday afternoon.
Just before the shots rang out, hundreds of thousands of fans lined the parade route, some climbing trees and street poles or standing on rooftops to watch the players pass by on double-decker buses.
