Police rule out terrorism as motive behind Kansas City Chiefs parade shooting; two teens in custody



The Kansas City Chiefs' victory parade in the team's Missouri hometown ended in bloodshed Wednesday afternoon. Gunshots rang out west of Union station just as the festivities were winding down, causing panic and confusion.

A pair of heroic dads managed to subdue one alleged gunman, but only after 22 people were wounded and a beloved mother of two was slain.

It was initially unclear what prompted the monstrous attack, although some suspected terrorism might have been to blame. Police have since revealed that a personal "dispute" between multiple thugs, not terrorism, was to blame.

Two teenagers are presently in custody. Police may yet make more arrests, as they suspect others may have been involved in the shooting.

The shooting

According to the Kansas City Missouri Police Department, shots were first fired around 2 p.m. Wednesday, west of Union Station, where a stage had been erected for speeches by Kansas City Chiefs players. Nearly 1 million people were estimated to have been in the downtown area at the time to celebrate the Chiefs' Super Bowl win.

The shooting caused panic, prompting some fans to take cover and others to run to safety.

KCMPD Chief Stacey Graves confirmed Thursday that at least 22 people were wounded in the shooting, in addition to Elizabeth Galvan, a 43-year-old radio disc jockey and a mother of two, who was fatally shot. The ages of the victims ranged from 8 to 47, and at least half of the wounded were under the age of 16.

Blaze News previously detailed how two fathers who had taken their kids to the parade spotted an individual believed to be a shooter and subdued him.

Graves celebrated the effort by bystanders to take action in the face of evil, reported the New York Times.

"They helped one another and even physically stopped a person who was believed to be involved in the incident," said Graves. "Your selfless act did not go unnoticed."

A 'dispute'

Graves indicated in a Thursday update that "preliminary investigative findings have shown there was no nexus to terrorism or homegrown violent extremism."

"This appeared to be a dispute between several people that ended in gunfire," said the police chief.

Jacob Gooch Sr., a survivor of the shooting, told "CBS Mornings" that just moments prior to the shooting, he overheard an "altercation" punctuated by a girl pleading, "Don't do it. Not here. This is stupid."

"My daughter said that some lady was holding him back, and people started backing up, and he pulled it out and starting shooting and spinning in a circle," said Gooch.

Gooch indicated he took a bullet to the foot; his wife was shot in her calf; and his son was struck in the foot. His daughter, fortunately, was left unscathed.

When pressed on whether he saw anything out of the ordinary prior to the shooting, Gooch noted he had been "suspicious of a certain group of people that were there. We were standing ... on the left side of the stage when the shooting ended up happening, and right before it ended up happening, there was this group dressed in all black, about four, five, six kids — looked like kids — with black on, black masks, and they disappeared into the crowd."

Graves noted that two juveniles are in police custody. While charges have yet to be filed, Graves indicated the department has only 24 hours to do so; otherwise it will have to cut the teens loose.

The chief also noted that investigators are looking into whether others were involved in the shooting.

"It should be noted that we have recovered several firearms," said Graves.

The Democrat-run city has long had an issue with violence, particularly gang- and youth-related violence.

Last month, another shooting occurred inside a popular shopping mall in downtown Kansas City, leaving six people wounded. The Star reported that what apparently triggered the shooting was a disturbance between two groups of "youths."

According to the Kansas City Star, the city set a record last years for homicides with at least 185 slayings. Over 240 were slain across the metro area. The previous year, there were 171 homicides.

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Levin: Hamas are 'Nazi murderers' who aim to bring about 'the second Holocaust'



What’s happening in Israel is what Mark Levin refers to as “the second Holocaust.”

While he is well aware that 6 million Jews are not being slaughtered, he also recognizes that those who are raping, kidnapping, and beheading Israelis want to slaughter 7 million.

“That’s the whole point of this, and there the atrocities are just unspeakable. The inhumanity is unspeakable,” he says.

“They want to blame the Jews and they want to blame Israel,” Levin continues. “Their long-term if not short-term goal is to blow the Jews out. To obliterate them, to mass kill them, genocide. That’s their objective. That’s why you see the atrocities today.”

Hamas is a branch of one of the most vicious terrorist organizations on the face of the earth, which has killed many Americans and committed many acts of terrorism. Now Hamas has joined forces with Iran — and Biden chose to unfreeze $6 billion for Iran not weeks before the invasion of Israel.

“These terrorists, these Nazi murderers, they want to do the same to every human being in the United States. Every one of us, and they did attack us more than once, and they’re going to attack us again, which is why Iran must be denied a nuclear weapon,” Levin says.

However, “the Biden administration is clearing the path for them to acquire one,” he adds.

Levin notes that the equivalency Biden’s media is creating between the Palestinians and the Israelis by reporting on how many Palestinians die in the Gaza strip is “disgusting.”

“During World War II, did our media keep a running tab on how many Japanese we killed? How many Germans we killed? How many Italians we killed? Of course not,” he says, explaining that no mercy is required if good is going to prevail.

“There’s good and there’s evil. Good people trying to survive will not survive if they don’t destroy evil. And evil needs to be sent back to hell.”


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