Multiple people shot during Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade

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Super Bowl parade shooting: Two (adult) men charged with murder​

The charged men - identified as Dominic Miller and Lyndell Mays - were both shot and wounded during the incident.

Two teenagers were charged with resisting arrest and gun violations last week.

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Court documents released on Tuesday allege that the incident stemmed from a verbal altercation between Mr Mays and four people who asked "what he was looking at".

Surveillance footage of the shooting shows that Mr Mays approached the other group aggressively and pointed at them "in an angry manner" before drawing his weapon.

He later told police he "hesitated shooting because he knew there were kids there", but began firing after he heard someone in the rival group say he would "get him".

Mr Miller initially told police he was trying to flee when he was struck by gunfire, but later recanted when faced with video evidence. He admitted to shooting four or five times. One of the bullets fired by his gun struck Ms Lopez Galvan.

[More charges (and more suspects) are possible.]

 

[Brihaha]

Super Bowl parade shooting: Two (adult) men charged with murder​

The charged men - identified as Dominic Miller and Lyndell Mays - were both shot and wounded during the incident.

Two teenagers were charged with resisting arrest and gun violations last week.

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Court documents released on Tuesday allege that the incident stemmed from a verbal altercation between Mr Mays and four people who asked "what he was looking at".

Surveillance footage of the shooting shows that Mr Mays approached the other group aggressively and pointed at them "in an angry manner" before drawing his weapon.

He later told police he "hesitated shooting because he knew there were kids there", but began firing after he heard someone in the rival group say he would "get him".

Mr Miller initially told police he was trying to flee when he was struck by gunfire, but later recanted when faced with video evidence. He admitted to shooting four or five times. One of the bullets fired by his gun struck Ms Lopez Galvan.

[More charges (and more suspects) are possible.]

If gun toters cannot handle someone looking at them in public they are not fit to have guns. We must have some rational requirements for allowing someone to own weapons in America. We can find requirements for driving motor vehicles and voting in elections. I know legislators could create requirements to weed out some unqualified people from legally buying guns, but only if we elect those legislators willing to sacrifice some work to save lives.

 

[DaisyDay]

I wasn’t joking.

Well yes, would that you were.

 

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Just a beef that escalated to a second amendment solution, it seems.

Could Missouri's 'stand your ground' law apply to the Super Bowl parade shooters?​

Court documents say the man accused of firing the first shots at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally told authorities he felt threatened, while a second man said he pulled the trigger because someone was shooting at him

While earlier laws allowed people to use force to protect themselves in their homes, stand your ground provides even broader self-defense rights regardless of the location.

Now, the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration could be a new test of those expanded protections, and comes as self-defense already is at the center of another high-profile Kansas City shooting that left Ralph Yarl wounded.

Trial attorney Daniel Ross described the stand your ground law as a “formidable defense” that he and many other Kansas City defense attorneys anticipate will be used in Mays' and Miller's cases. He said the law puts the onus on the prosecution to disprove claims that a shooting is lawful self-defense.

“Collateral damage under Missouri law is excused if you’re actually engaged in lawful self-defense and there’s other folks injured,” he said.

There are limits to the defense, however, said Eric Ruben, a law professor at the S.M.U. Dedman School of Law in Dallas who has written on stand your ground and self-defense immunity.

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) deletes false post about Kansas City shooting after talking to Knox News​

Tim Burchett, the Republican congressman representing East Tennessee, waded into the confusion to offer some information through his X social media account.

Not arrested? Denton Loudermill, a Kansas City-area native who was briefly detained because he was drunk in public. He was eventually released and police never suspected he was connected to the shooting.

Nonetheless, Burchett posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, a photo that showed Loudermill and falsely claimed he was an illegal immigrant who committed the shooting.

Burchett's tweet was reposted by over 2,000 people and was interacted with by at least 4,000. Loudermill, a father of three, told local media he's received death threats since images of him at the scene went viral, but he's not taking legal action.

[Per the last link, the false information is another one of the "Sahil Omar" dis/misinformation ploys]

"Sahil Omar" has also been falsely linked to the November 2023 Rainbow Bridge crash on the US-Canada border and the December 2023 shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. But it is unclear whether a real "Sahil Omar" exists and the disinformation appears to be aimed at linking immigrants to mass shootings and crime.

GOP Rep Sued For Falsely Claiming Man Was Chiefs’ Parade Shooter, ‘Illegal Alien’

Rep. Tim Burchett shared a photo of a Kansas man who was neither an immigrant, nor the shooter who opened fire at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade.

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