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Redemptorist Catholic Church in Kansas City is hosting visitation Friday night, followed by a funeral mass on Saturday morning. Both events are open to the public, while a burial after the funeral will be family only.
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People who want to see the vote to extend a Jackson County sales tax to fund a downtown stadium fail formed a campaign committee with the state. They say there is grassroots opposition, especially in eastern Jackson County.
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Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said her office will work closely with the juvenile court, which has charged two minors in connection with the mass shooting at the Chiefs Super Bowl rally last week. The prosecutor discussed legal challenges she anticipates with the case and ways she'd like to see gun policy change in the state.
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Denton Loudermill Jr. was briefly detained by police for moving too slowly away from the crime scene, but many people on social media — including a Republican Congressman from Tennessee — saw an African American man in handcuffs and falsely claimed he was one of the shooters.
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Friends, family and the larger Kansas City community are mourning the loss of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a mother of two and DJ at radio station KKFI, who was fatally shot at the Chiefs victory parade. "It's amazing how people are coming out of the woodwork just telling us how special she was — just strangers that she touched," her brother said.
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Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a beloved DJ and leader in Kansas City’s Latino community, was shot and killed at the Chief’s Super Bowl victory parade at Union Station on Feb. 14. “She was a big-hearted person,” Galvan’s brother, Beto Lopez, told KCUR's Up To Date.
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Nearly 200 people rallied at Washington Square Park on Saturday afternoon to call on Missouri lawmakers to pass legislation to help prevent future mass shootings, like the one at Union Station that killed one person and injured 22 more on Wednesday.
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About half those injured in the Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting were children. With such incidents continuing to happen, some parents now think twice about bringing kids to big, crowded events.
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The burst of gunfire that killed a young mother and wounded almost two dozen others at the Chiefs Super Bowl victory rally on Valentine's Day could have turned out even deadlier. But with mass shootings now regular events, local hospitals and trauma doctors have been trained on how to accommodate and triage large numbers of victims.
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Jackson County charged two 16-year-olds with gun offenses and resisting arrest in connection with the Chiefs victory parade shooting that killed one and injured 24. Now, one of the teens faces felony charges for unlawful use of a weapon and resisting arrest.
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Dozens of people gathered for a hastily called vigil on Thursday night at Skywalk Memorial Park in Kansas City to honor Lopez-Galvan, the Shawnee mother of two and local radio DJ killed in the Chiefs parade shooting. “She was here to do good," one of her childhood friends said.
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“Sending my deepest sympathies and condolences in the wake of your devastating loss,” the GoFundMe donation read. “With love, Taylor Swift.” Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a mother and a local radio DJ, is so far the sole person killed in the mass shooting at Union Station.