Before Super Bowl parade shooting, KC homicide rates were breaking records

[LAUREN TAYLOR]

ONE WEEK AGO – SHOTS RANG OUT IN KANSAS CITY – DURING THE CHIEFS’ SUPER BOWL VICTORY PARADE.

LISA LOPEZ-GALVAN WAS KILLED AND 24 OTHER PEOPLE – RANGING IN AGE FROM 8 TO 47 YEARS OLD – WERE WOUNDED.

WE’RE NOW LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE SUSPECTS INVOLVED IN THE CASE.

TWO ADULTS AND TWO JUVENILES HAVE BEEN CHARGED.

PROSECUTORS SAID THE JUVENILES ARE FACING CHARGES FOR RESISTING ARREST AND GUN-RELATED OFFENSES.

THE ADULTS ARE 23-YEAR-OLD LYNDELL MAYS AND 18-YEAR-OLD DOMINIC MILLER –

BOTH ARE FACING CHARGES OF 2ND DEGREE MURDER…

TWO COUNTS OF ARMED CRIMINAL ACTION AND UNLAWFUL USE OF A WEAPON.

(JEAN PETERS-BAKER / JACKSON COUNTY PROSECUTOR)

“WE SEEK TO HOLD EVERY SHOOTER ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS ON THAT DAY. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. SO WHILE WE’RE NOT THERE YET ON EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL, WE’RE GONNA GET THERE.”

[LAUREN TAYLOR]

ACCORDING TO THE PROBABLE CAUSE AFFIDAVITS…

TWO GROUPS OF MEN – WHO DIDN’T KNOW EACH OTHER – GOT INTO A VERBAL ALTERCATION AFTER STARING AT EACH OTHER.

MAYS PULLED HIS GUN FIRST.

WHEN ASKED “WHY?” MAYS SAID “STUPID, MAN. JUST PULLED A GUN OUT AND STARTED SHOOTING. I SHOULDN’T HAVE DONE THAT. JUST BEING STUPID.”

THE OTHER SUSPECT – DOMINIC MILLER WAS REPORTEDLY PART OF THE CONFRONTING GROUP.

MILLER WATCHED THE VERBAL ARGUMENT UNFOLD…

POLICE SAY HE QUICKLY PRODUCED A FIREARM – AND ADVANCED ON MAYS’ GROUP.

SEVERAL OTHERS PULLED OUT FIREARMS.

MILLER ALLEGEDLY FIRED AFTER MAYS FIRED FIRST…

DURING THE COMMOTION…

AN UNIDENTIFIED MEMBER DISCHARGED HIS FIREARM AND HIT MILLER IN THE LOWER BACK… AND “MILLER APPEARS TO TRIP OVER A CONE, WHILE STILL SHOOTING.”

BOTH MAYS AND MILLER WERE SHOT AND BOTH ENDED UP ON THE GROUND.

POLICE SAID THEY FOUND MULTIPLE 9MM AND .40 CALIBER SHELL CASINGS AT THE SCENE.

DETECTIVES RECOVERED A GLOCK 9MM HANDGUN –

“A COMPUTER CHECK REVEALED THE FIREARM TO BE STOLEN OUT OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.”

ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS… 

A +38 CALIBER BULLET WAS RECOVERED FROM LOPEZ-GALVAN’S BODY…

AND A BALLISTICS TEST “DETERMINED THE BULLET RECOVERED FROM THE FEMALE WAS FIRED FROM THE TAURUS G2 9MM, THE FIREARM MILLER ACKNOWLEDGED POSSESSING AND FIRING.”

KANSAS CITY MAYOR QUINTON LUCAS SAID INVESTIGATORS ARE WORKING DILIGENTLY TO COMPLETE THE INVESTIGATION.

(MAYOR QUINTON LUCAS / KANSAS CITY)

“WE RECOGNIZE THAT FOR THE PEOPLE OF KANSAS CITY TO FEEL SAFE, FOR US TO DETER CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, AND TO ENSURE VALID AND APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT, CONSEQUENCES MUST BE SWIFT, CERTAIN, AND SEVERE.”

[LAUREN TAYLOR]

FOR MANY ACROSS THE COUNTRY…

A MASS SHOOTING AT A SUPER BOWL PARADE IS SHOCKING.

HOWEVER – IT WASN’T FOR SOME WHO LIVE IN KANSAS CITY…

ANOTHER AMERICAN CITY PLAGUED BY GANG AND GUN VIOLENCE.

LAST YEAR – WHEN MOST U.S. CITIES REPORTED A DROP IN HOMICIDE RATES…

KANSAS CITY WAS AN EXCEPTION…

AS IT REPORTED 182 HOMICIDES – THE DEADLIEST ON RECORD.

AND JUST LIKE THE SUPER BOWL VICTORY PARADE SHOOTING…

DOZENS OF LAST YEAR’S HOMICIDES WERE THE RESULT OF A VERBAL CONFRONTATION.

(CHIEF STACEY GRAVES / KANSAS CITY, MO POLICE DEPT.)

“AND IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF OUR HOMICIDES THAT WE HAD LAST YEAR, 67 OF THEM WERE FROM AN ARGUMENT. I THINK THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.”

[LAUREN TAYLOR]

ACCORDING TO EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY…

IN 2022 – CHICAGO SAW 539 HOMICIDES..

AT A RATE OF 19.7 PER EVERY 100,000.

THAT SAME YEAR – KANSAS CITY REPORTED 146 HOMICIDES..

AT A RATE OF 29 PER EVERY 100,000.

AT THIS TIME – IT’S UNCLEAR IF ANY OF THE SHOOTERS INVOLVED IN THE SUPER BOWL VICTORY PARADE SHOOTING ARE AFFILIATED WITH ANY GANGS.