By Jeremiah Hassel
Though the police have admitted to arresting three individuals in connection with Wednesday's heinous mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs' celebratory Super Bowl parade, none have yet been charged.
The Kansas City Police Department now has 24 hours to file charges, or the suspects will have to be released. They are all accused of shooting up the parade, which had thousands of fans in attendance as well as over 850 cops from both the Kansas City Department and other jurisdictions, killing a mother and radio host and injuring 21 others, including eight children.
Two of the three people detained were juveniles, with firearms recovered during the chaos that ensued after the first shots were fired. Details about the third remain hazy. Police Chief Stacey Graves said the department is desperately calling for witnesses, anyone with phone footage or any of the victims, to come forward and provide more information that might help the department officially press charges.
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"We are working to determine the involvement of others. And it should be noted we have recovered several firearms. This incident is still a very active investigation," Graves said at a news conference.
The shooting has been described as a dispute that occurred between several people in the crowd, with Graves stating that it was not an act of terrorism but rather a very nasty isolated incident that carried with it immense collateral damage. She added in a press conference on Thursday that those injured were between the ages of 8 and 47, with half of the victims under the age of 16.
The woman who died, Lisa Lopez, served as a DJ for local radio stations in Kansas City and was a mother of two. She worked for KKFI, and it was reported that she died after being rushed to a local hospital for emergency surgery for a gunshot wound she suffered to the stomach. Other victims were also rushed to one of three local hospitals, with seven initially listed in critical condition.
Lopez was the host of Taste of Tejano and went by the DJ name Lisa G, and she was described as an extrovert and devoted mother who came from a prominent Latino family, Rosa Izurieta and Martha Ramirez, two of Lisa's childhood friends, said.
Harrowing accounts from the scene describe fans believing the shots were actually fireworks at first before the sheer terror set in and throngs of people raced away from the scene. Some described the confusion and chaos as they tried to figure out what was happening or raced into Union Station to take shelter. The shooting happened near the landmark.
Social media users posted numerous shocking videos of the scene, which showed crowds running around, people scrambling for cover, and even a person performing chest compressions on a victim who had allegedly been shot. People screamed in the background as they ran.
Another video shows two heroes, who later came forward and spoke to ABC's Good Morning America, tackling one of the suspects and grabbing his gun once he was on the ground. It remains unclear if that person was actually one of the three arrested, but nevertheless, a gun was taken out of the equation by Trey Filter and his wife, Casey.