Two juveniles slapped with gun, resisting arrest charges in Kansas City Chiefs parade shooting: officials
Two teens have been slapped with charges in connection to the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory parade deadly shooting earlier this week, officials said Friday.
The minors, who haven’t been identified because they are being charged as juveniles, are being held on gun and resisting arrest charges, according to the Jackson County Family Court Division in Missouri.
“The juveniles are currently detained in secure detention at the Juvenile Detention Center on gun-related and resisting arrest charges,” the court said in a statement.
“It is anticipated that additional charges are expected in the future as the investigation by the Kansas City Police Department continues.”
The juveniles could eventually be charged as adults, but the process takes days or weeks.
No further details were released.
The juveniles were detained in the wake of Wednesday’s bloodshed that left one woman dead and 22 wounded when gunfire erupted outside the city’s landmark Union Station at the end of the NFL team’s victory celebration.
A third minor, who had also been detained, was set free Thursday after investigators determined they weren’t involved, a Kansas City Police Department spokesperson confirmed.
Officials haven’t disclosed any details about the suspects, including their ages.
It wasn’t immediately clear if those details would trickle out given juvenile court hearings in Missouri are closed off to the public.
Police Chief Stacey Graves hailed the charges, saying in a statement: “I am grateful for the charges against the two juveniles who hurt innocent people, simultaneously scarring an entire community.”
“Our investigators have poured themselves into this investigation, and it continues,” she continued. “We will not relent until everyone who may have played a part in these crimes is apprehended so that they may be punished to the fullest extent of the law.”
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It comes after Graves said a day earlier that the shooting appeared to be the result of a personal dispute that had exploded into violence, rather than a targeted attack.
“This appears to be a dispute between several people that ended in gunfire,” Graves told a Thursday news conference.
“Preliminary investigative findings have shown there is no nexus to terrorism or homegrown violent extremism.
Several firearms were recovered from the scene in the wake of the shooting, the police chief added.
The 22 people injured in the gunfire ranged in age from 8 to 47 — and half of them were under the age of 16. In total, 11 children were rushed to the children’s hospital, nine of them with gunshot wounds, officials said.
Meanwhile, Lisa Lopez-Gavlan — a 43-year-old mother of two — was killed.
Just moments before the gunfire rang out, hundreds of thousands of fans had lined the parade route and some even climbed trees and street poles or stood on rooftops to watch as players passed by on double-decker buses.
Two fans attending the rally ended up tackling and detaining one of the three suspects, cops said.
With Post wires
