Two followers got here to salute the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. They stopped a suspected shooter

By Wealthy McKay

(Reuters) -Trey Filter, an avid Kansas Metropolis Chiefs fan, was feeling nice in regards to the Tremendous Bowl victory rally he was leaving together with his household when immediately pictures rang out, he noticed individuals working and he heard them shout, “He is acquired a gun! Get him!”

He noticed the person everybody appeared to be shouting about and sized up the scenario. “I did the mathematics proper there and jumped,” the paving firm proprietor, 40, from Wichita, Kansas, stated in an interview.

Filter and one other Chiefs fan, Paul Contreras, tackled the person who was then detained for questioning by police together with two different individuals following Wednesday’s lethal capturing outdoors the downtown landmark Union Station.

The capturing gave the impression to be the results of a dispute between people, police stated on Thursday.

The gunfire turned a sun-drenched love fest between the Tremendous Bowl champs and their hometown followers right into a horror present. A beloved native radio DJ was killed and 22 different individuals had been wounded. It was Valentine’s Day no much less.

Filter stated he thought at first he was listening to fireworks. “We did not suppose a lot of it,” he stated. He was feeling it had been a “nice day” celebrating the Chiefs 25-22 victory over San Francisco in Sunday’s championship recreation.

Filter and Contreras advised the person that they had tackled that “he wanted to remain down, till a few cops pulled us off him,” Filter stated. His spouse Casey recovered what they believed was the person’s AK-47 fashion rifle.

Kansas Metropolis Police Chief Stacey Graves stated on Thursday that some attendees “bodily stopped an individual who was believed to be concerned within the incident.” Talking at a press convention, she thanked the individuals for having “acted bravely.”

She stated investigators had been reviewing the footage to find out if the person was one of many individuals taken into police custody.

Fifteen individuals had life-threatening wounds, and 11 of these harm by gunfire or the following pandemonium had been kids, officers stated.

Filter advised Reuters that he hadn’t slept a lot on Wednesday night time and that he and his household had been “simply looking for out why this occurred, like everybody else.”

Contreras, the fan who helped Filter subdue the suspect, advised his hometown tv station KETV in Omaha, Nebraska, that the person appeared to drop his gun when Contreras tackled him from behind.

“I kinda acquired him excessive and the opposite man will get him round his waist, and we’re simply placing our weight on him, and he is preventing to stand up,” Contreras advised the station.

A video shot by Contreras’ daughter Alyssa within the aftermath of the incident confirmed law enforcement officials clustered round a person on the grass subsequent to a concrete barricade, with a whole bunch of Chiefs followers watching from the opposite aspect.

As soon as police arrived, Contreras stated, he barely exchanged phrases with them. He waited together with his three daughters for a couple of minutes after which headed to their automotive.

(Reporting by Wealthy McKay and Brendan O’Brien; Enhancing by Howard Goller)