The latest on the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration shooting

Cleanup underway at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 15, following a shooting that took place at the end of a rally celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl win.

Police are investigating a shooting that killed one person and wounded more than 20 others on Wednesday. The shooting happened after a rally celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl win.

Here’s what we know so far:

One of the three people detained in the wake of Wednesday’s Super Bowl celebration shooting has been released, the Kansas City Police Department said. That person was determined not to have been involved, a police spokesperson tells CNN.?

Only two juvenile teens are currently in custody in connection with the incident, according to the police department.

“A third person who was in custody was determined to not be involved,” spokesperson Alayna Gonzalez said.

“The two juveniles are currently being held in custody while we work with juvenile prosecutors to review investigative findings and determine applicable charges,” the spokesperson added. “The juvenile court system determines the custody status of all juvenile arrests.”

Kansas City Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed said the shooting after Super Bowl celebrations on Wednesday brought back memories of being a target of gun violence.

Sneed said he and others rushed into a building when the chaos started. The four-year NFL pro said kids “surrounded me” while seeking shelter in a basement.?

“I tried to comfort them in that situation. Just tell them everything is OK. Just rubbing their back(s) and just be like, ‘Everything’s going to be fine,’” he said.

“It’s very sad,” he told ESPN. “Just for the kids. They are trying to celebrate something, a big accomplishment for us. We were just trying to celebrate it with them, and for that to happen is very tragic.”

A majority of the patients admitted to University Health Truman Medical Center and Children’s Mercy Kansas City have been discharged, hospital officials confirmed Thursday afternoon.?

At University Health Truman Medical Center, eight of the 12 patients have been released. Of the four still being treated, three suffered gunshot wounds and one sustained a broken bone while trying to flee the scene, according to doctors.

Two of the gunshot victims are in critical condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit, Dr. Dustin Neel said. He called one a “young gentleman” and the other an “older woman,” and said they were the first two patients the hospital received.?

Children’s Mercy Kansas City said they initially admitted 12 people after the shooting — 11 children and one adult. Nine of the children had gunshot wounds. All but three patients have been discharged as of Thursday, hospital officials said.

Those three still in the hospital are children, Chief Nursing Officer Stephanie Meyer said. She said they have been stabilized and all are doing well and expected to make full recoveries.?

Radio traffic between law enforcement and other emergency responders details the response to Wednesday’s shooting at the?Chiefs?victory rally at Union Station in Kansas City.

In the Broadcastify?channel Kansas City Metro Area Fire, EMS, and Police, authorities can be heard working to get medical personnel to wounded victims and coordinate the search for suspects.

“Fire’s getting reports of shots fired at (unintelligible) and Main … there’s a bunch of people running, can we get more people down here?” one person said.

On the radio, responders are heard reporting a shooting on the west side of Union Station and dispatching emergency medics. Later, officers take one person into custody and start to try to clear the crowd out.

President Joe Biden is devastated but “also frustrated”?by Wednesday’s mass shooting in Kansas City that killed one person and injured more than 20 others, the White House said Thursday.

In a statement lamenting the shooting Wednesday, Biden mourned that the celebration “turned to tragedy,” before calling on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban, limit high-capacity magazines and strengthen background checks.

The press secretary wouldn’t say if Biden plans to speak to the victims or travel to Kansas City.

An undated photo of Lisa Lopez-Galvan.

The family of the woman killed in a shooting after a Super Bowl celebration for the Kansas City Chiefs is remembering her as an amazing mother, wife and daughter.

Radio?DJ Lisa Lopez-Galvan?died after getting shot?at?the rally, her family and her employer KKFI 90.1 FM have said, and police confirmed her death on Thursday.

“We are heartbroken with the loss of our loved one, Elizabeth ‘Lisa,’” her family said in a statement, adding that she leaves behind her husband and two kids.

CNN’s Chris Boyette contributed reporting to this post.

A law enforcement officer looks around the scene after the shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 14.

Bullets and shell casings left behind at the scene of Wednesday’s shooting after the Chiefs Super Bowl rally in Kansas City, Missouri, are key pieces of evidence being analyzed to determine a possible connection to individuals currently in custody — as well as any possible additional suspects — a law enforcement source told CNN.?

Specialists from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) are also analyzing bullets recovered at the scene and in victims to determine which gun was responsible for killing or injuring specific people, the source said.?

Ejected casings are additionally being studied to identify whether unique markings left behind on a shell casing by a gun during firing — similar to a fingerprint — match other shootings in law enforcement databases, the source said.?

On Wednesday, Kansas City police said three people had been detained, and an unspecified number of guns were recovered by police.

In addition to helping tie those guns to rounds fired at the scene, the source said ATF investigators are working to determine whether any bullets and shell casings recovered fail to fit the unique profile of those recovered weapons, which could indicate additional suspects are at large.?

Emergency personnel arrive at the scene after the shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, Wednesday, February 14.

Half of the over 20 people injured in the shooting at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory rally are under the age of 16, Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said.

The victims range in age from 8 to 47 years old, according to Graves. The one person who has died from the shooting was 43 years old, she confirmed. CNN?previously reported that Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a?Kansas?City-area radio DJ, died during the shooting and was identified by KKFI radio 90.1 FM.

There were 22 victims of the shooting who were treated at the scene and transported by emergency personnel, said Kansas City Interim Fire Chief Ross Grundyson on Thursday. Of those taken to hospitals, there were eight critical patients in critical condition, seven in serious condition and six with minor injuries. He said all the critical patients were transported off the scene within 10 minutes of first responders’ arrival.

The number treated and transported by first responders may not include everyone who was injured, as some victims may have sought treatment on their own after fleeing the scene.

Free counseling services are now available to anyone in the Kansas City community after a shooting after the Chiefs Super Bowl parade on Wednesday, according to the Jackson County prosecutor’s office.

Counselors and social workers will be available at the United Church of Christ in Brookside from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time on Thursday, according to the office, and the services are free. The Child Protection Center will also have resources there, it said.

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas also said people can call “988” to be connected with services. Victim advocacy information will also be available soon, he said at a news conference Thursday.

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas speaks during a press conference on Thursday.

When asked if Kansas City would hold another parade for any future championships by the Chiefs, Mayor Quinton Lucas said Thursday that the city is not done hosting parades.

“We have a plan for a St. Patrick’s Day parade in Kansas City. We have parades all the time. I don’t think they’ll end,” he said. “Certainly we recognize the public safety challenges at issue that relate to them.”

“We’ve had parades like this before,” he said. “We had one last year without this type of incident. We had a Kansas City Royals parade where we had almost no arrests in 2015. So I don’t think in anyway that this is Kansas City. I do think there is a gun violence challenge in this community and many others.”

Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves speaks during a press conference on Thursday.

Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said the investigation into the deadly shooting following the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory rally remains ongoing and the department has yet to charge the individuals involved in the incident.

“We have not charged them yet; this is still under investigation,” Graves said at a news conference Thursday.

Two of the detained are juveniles, according to the police chief.

A law enforcement official told CNN the three people in custody are all believed to have been involved in a personal dispute and that, initially, 10 people were questioned. The status of the other seven who were questioned is unclear.

Baker?posted on X Thursday morning: “We will get through this together. We will get answers. We will heal together. And we will fight together. And I will use every tool at my disposal under Missouri law that allows me to address this tragedy.”

This post has been updated with additional comments from the prosecutor and details on those who have been detained and questioned.

CNN’s Chris Boyette contributed to this post.

Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves speaks during a press conference on Thursday.

Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said there was no link to terrorism or homegrown extremism in Wednesday’s shooting after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory rally. She said it was a personal dispute in which other people were injured.

“Preliminary investigative findings have shown there was no nexus to terrorism or homegrown violent extremism,” Graves said at a news conference Thursday.

“This appeared to be a dispute between several people that ended in gunfire,” she added.

Several law enforcement officials earlier also told CNN that the incident is believed to have been the result of a personal dispute in the area,?rather than an attack on the celebration itself.

Authorities are holding a news briefing about the deadly shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, following Wednesday’s Chiefs Super Bowl parade, according to the Kansas City Police Department.

Police cordon off the area around Union Station following the shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 14.

Wednesday’s mass shooting that left at least one dead and 30 injured in Kansas City, Missouri, after the Chiefs Super Bowl celebration is believed to have been the result of a personal dispute in the area,?rather than an attack on the celebration itself, according to several law enforcement officials.?

One of those officials?said the three people currently in custody are all believed to have been involved in the dispute, and that initially, 10 people were questioned. The status of the other seven who were questioned is unclear.

Marquez Valdes-Scantling looks on during a preseason game in August 2023.

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling said he’d like to get in touch with the families of Wednesday’s shooting victims, and he’s turning to Twitter to help him do so.

His tweet was retweeting an earlier tweet from an NFL Network correspondent that reported that Children’s Mercy hospital in Kansas City is treating 12 patients from the rally, with 11 of them being children, and nine having suffered gunshot wounds.

On Wednesday evening, authorities were still working to determine the exact number of victims, which Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves put at 22 shot, including the person who died. Four hospitals together received 30 patients – 19 with gunshot wounds – from the shooting, their staffs told CNN.?

Emergency personnel arrive at the scene of the shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 14.

An additional person reported to a Kansas City hospital for treatment Wednesday following the shooting after the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade celebration, according to a hospital spokesperson — bringing the reported total of people injured to 30.

Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City treated a fifth patient yesterday “for minor injuries,” Media Relations Director Emily Hohenberg told CNN. It had previously confirmed four total patients, one of whom had a gunshot wound.?

The patient admitted with a gunshot wound is in critical condition, Hohenberg told CNN.

The other four patients treated at the hospital were “walk-in patients with minor injuries from fleeing the scene,” she said, and all have since been released.?

University Health Truman Medical Center also offered an update on patients Thursday morning.

Communications Director Keith King told CNN two of the hospital’s eight gunshot victims remain in critical condition. University Health received 12 total patients on Wednesday.?

CNN has reached out to Children’s Mercy hospital and the University of Kansas Health System for updates on the remaining 13 patients.

This post has been updated with the condition of patients at Saint Luke’s Hospital.

Trey Smith stands on the sidelines prior to a Kansas City Chiefs game in October 2023.

Kansas?City Chiefs offensive lineman Trey Smith took cover like so many other bystanders when gunfire erupted after a Super Bowl celebration Wednesday, leaving one dead and more than 20 injured, but he helped calm frightened people trying to escape the danger, including children.

Smith told ABC that a security guard ushered them away when the shooting started, and he realized, “‘OK, this is not a joke. It’s the life-and-death-type situation.’”

Smith said he found shelter in a closet and guided others to safety.

Smith said?Kansas?City Chiefs long snapper James Winchester was also “very instrumental in helping keep people calm.”

After authorities cleared them to leave the closet, they walked to the team buses, which quickly filled with the frightened bystanders.

Smith, who had been carrying a World Wrestling Entertainment championship belt as a prop through the Super Bowl parade, noticed a small boy who he said was panicked.

Kansas City shooting survivor Jacob Gooch, Sr., who was shot in the ankle, told “CBS Mornings” on Thursday that he overheard an altercation prior to the mass shooting following a parade and rally for the Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs on Wednesday.

Gooch told CBS’ Gayle King that before gunfire started, he heard a woman tell a presumed shooter, “don’t do it, not here; this is stupid.”

Gooch said his wife and daughter then saw a gun being drawn.

Gooch said he, his wife and his son were all shot. He told CBS his wife was shot in the calf, while Gooch was shot in the ankle and sustained breaks to a few metatarsal bones in his foot. Gooch did not specify his son’s injuries or provide an update on his son’s medical status.

Police respond to the shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 14.

Authorities are looking for a motive in the shooting at the end of the?Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory rally on Wednesday in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The shooting left one person dead and more than 20 injured.

This is everything we know so far:

Justin Reid stands on the sidelines ahead of a Kansas City Chiefs game in September 2023.

Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid has called on leaders to address gun violence after Wednesday’s deadly mass shooting at the team’s Super Bowl celebration parade.

Reid called on leaders to find solutions to gun violence to protect future generations.

“This is a SERIOUS PROBLEM!! I pray our leaders enact real solutions so our kids’ kids won’t know this violence.”

Family members of a woman killed during Wednesday’s shooting at the?Kansas?City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration are among those injured.

Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a?Kansas?City-area radio DJ, died during the shooting and was identified by KKFI radio 90.1 FM, CNN?previously reported.

Lopez-Galvan was the sister of Lee’s Summit Mayor Pro Tem Beto Lopez,?according to Lee’s Summit Mayor Bill Baird. Lee’s Summit is located about 20 miles southeast of?Kansas?City.

“Our dear friend Mayor Pro Tem Beto Lopez and his family need our prayers now and tonight,” Baird said. “His family members were victims in the parade today.”

Baird added that two of Lopez’s nieces and a nephew were among those injured during the shooting.

Police respond to the shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 14.

The FBI has?set up a website?asking for tips or videos from the Super Bowl parade shooting that took place on Wednesday afternoon in Kansas City.

Anyone with any information, photos, or videos is encouraged by police and the FBI to submit them to the website.

An undated photo of Lisa Lopez-Galvan.

Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a?Kansas City-area radio DJ, died after being shot?at?the Chiefs victory rally, according to a post shared by her employer, KKFI radio 90.1 FM.

“It is with sincere sadness and an extremely heavy and broken heart that we let our community know that KKFI DJ Lisa Lopez, host of Taste of Tejano lost her life,” the station?shared on Facebook.?

Police have not provided any details surrounding her death.

“We are absolutely devastated at the loss of such an amazing person who gave so much to KKFI and the KC community,” Dougherty added.

Lopez-Galvan’s bio on the station’s website said she thought music “is Iife and a source of happiness.” She worked as a bilingual private DJ for over 15 years before becoming a co-host of Taste of Tejano in March of 2022.

Law enforcement and medical personnel gather around an injured person following the shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 14.

More than 20 people were being treated for injuries following the deadly shooting Wednesday after a massive celebration for the Super Bowl-winning Chiefs in Kansas City, Missouri, according to four local hospitals.

Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said during a news conference that 22 people were shot in the incident, one of whom died from their wounds. But the police are still working on the total number of those wounded.

The hospitals told CNN that 19 of 29 patients were being treated for gunshot wounds.

CNN’s Dianne Gallagher contributed to this report.

President Joe Biden speaks at the White House on February 13.

President Joe Biden called on Congress and the country to act in the wake of Wednesday’s mass shooting following a parade for the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs.?

Biden remarked that the Super Bowl win should have been a joyous occasion.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at campaign rally in Orangeburg, South Carolina, on February 2.

Vice President Kamala Harris called on Congress members to pass “reasonable gun safety laws” after Wednesday’s shooting following a parade for the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs.?

Harris added that her prayers are with those who have been affected by the shooting.?

In September 2023, President Joe Biden established the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and tasked the vice president with overseeing the office.