breaking latest news – One dead and 21 injured. The victim is a woman, but children and teenagers were also injured. They were all defenseless, helpless, distracted by an event like the Super Bowl and no one would have ever imagined that yesterday afternoon in Kansas City, during the Kansas City Chiefs celebratory parade, all hell would break loose. Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, which takes patients up to age 17, said it was treating 12 people – 11 of them children, nine for gunshot wounds – after the shooting, which occurred moments after Chiefs players they had addressed a large crowd of cheering fans gathered nearby.
Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a mother of two, a disc jockey, had been wounded in the abdomen. “She was the most beautiful and wonderful person there could be – a friend said of her – she had played music at all of our weddings. She was a girl full of life”.
Of the twenty-two injured in the shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs celebration parade, eleven were between the ages of 6 and 15. None of them are in mortal danger. The leaders of Children’s Mercy Hospital said so.
“There is something so American and depressing about a Super Bowl celebration shooting and the anniversary of another massacre.” This is what “March for Our Lives” commented on X, the student organization that is fighting to impose stricter laws on the circulation of weapons in the United States. The reference is to the anniversary of the massacre in Parkland, Florida, when on another February 14, but in 2018, seventeen people were killed.
“I am heartbroken by the tragedy that occurred today. My thoughts go out to everyone who came to celebrate with us and was affected. Kansas City, you mean everything to me.” This is the message posted on X by Travis Kelce, one of the stars of the Chiefs, the winners of the Super Bowl. Kelce, boyfriend of pop star Traylor Swift, is followed on the social network by 1.2 million followers.
US Vice President Kamala Harris has called on Congress to pass “reasonable gun safety laws”. The appeal comes after the shooting that occurred this afternoon in Kansas City, Missouri, where some people shot into the crowd gathered to celebrate the Chiefs football champions.
“The reality is that much of this can be avoided if members of legislatures, including those in the United States Congress, have the courage to pass reasonable security laws,” Harris said to reporters.
US President Joe Biden has again urged Congress to take action against gun violence. “With Jill, we pray for those killed and injured today in Kansas City and for our country to find the resolve to end this senseless epidemic of gun violence that is destroying us,” the President of the United States said in a statement from the White House.