A heroic Kansas City Chiefs fan who helped stop one of the gunmen at Wednesday’s Super Bowl parade knocked the man to the ground without thinking. Then his wife grabbed her gun.
Trey Filter heard someone yell, “Get him!” Seconds before, a gunshot rang out and a white flash of light was seen hurtling through the panicked crowd of revelers who had ducked for cover.
“My brain is like, ‘That must be him,'” Filter told the Post hours after the shooting that left one person dead and 22 injured.
“I literally remember when I was tackling him, I was like, ‘I wish this was the guy they were yelling at me to get.’ ‘Cause I just went, ‘Boom!’ you know. …I don’t remember seeing him coming at all. ”
The man was one of three people arrested after the shooting.
In a video that is currently going viral, Filter can be seen jumping on a fleeing man, dragging him to the ground and preventing him from jumping into a sea of confused and frightened participants.
The suspected gunman quickly wriggled away, but was quickly tackled again by another Chiefs fan, who somersaulted in the dirt with him in a desperate attempt to hold him back.
That’s when Mr. Filter jumped into the fray again and began punching the alleged gunman in the ribs, while his wife, Casey, lunged for the gun the fleeing man had dropped during the struggle.
Filter said he believes the murder weapon was an AK-47 assault rifle, but police would not confirm this when asked by The Post.
“I don’t know if I knocked him unconscious when I tackled him or what, but for all I know I squeezed him so hard that he might have passed out all the time. I just started tapping him in the ribs,” Filter recalled.
Filter said the second Chiefs fan, a complete stranger, struck the suspect several times in the face, which Filter said he did not have a chance to see.
Bystanders shouted that the man had a gun, and Mr. Filter continued to search the man for a firearm, unaware that his wife had already quelled the threat.
“I was just yelling, ‘Bring out the gun!'” And I was just punching him in the ribs. good. You know, it’s an American thing,” Filter said.
Officers arrived less than a minute later and handcuffed the suspect, Filter said.
Mr. Filter responded to the applause, stood up, looked around at his two sons, and said clearly: “Get your mother and we’ll get her out of here.”
The family, who took a day off from school and work to celebrate their favorite team, didn’t realize how serious the situation was until they started the three-hour drive back to their Wichita home.
The shooting killed at least one person, identified by loved ones as Lisa López Galván, a mother of two, and injured 22 others, including nine children.
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Filter, his wife, Casey, and their two sons, ages 12 and 15, were leaving the celebration when gunfire erupted. The father said at first he thought someone had set off firecrackers.
One of his sons asked if it was a gunshot, and the asphalt company owner replied, “I highly doubt it.”
“The reason I say that is because there were troops stationed on top of the building above us with .50 caliber machine guns. Obviously, they could use that. I think we felt pretty safe,” Filter said.
“Then it’s like there’s a rat loose in the house and everyone’s jumping around.”
Filter was humble about the praise he received, instead praising fellow Kansas City Chiefs fans who worked together to confront the suspected gunman.
He also extolled his pride in his wife of 20 years, who grabbed the huge gun before the man could cause more bloodshed.
“I literally just wanted to give the kids a good grade. It was a shame to pull them out of school, but this is a unique situation here in Kansas. Let’s go with this. We did it last year. I went. I just wanted to get points for my dad. I’m just glad we weren’t in the same boat as those guys,” Filter said.
Police have not yet released a motive for the shooting or details about the suspects.
