Trey Filter, 40, a passionate Kansas City Chiefs fan, was feeling great about his Super Bowl victory party and was leaving the celebration with his family when he heard gunshots, people running and shouting, “He has a gun! Get him!”
He saw the man everyone seemed to be talking about and calculated the situation. “I did the math right there and jumped,” the owner of a Wichita, Kansas, paving company said in an interview.
Filter and another Chiefs fan, Paul Contreras, took down the man, who was later detained by police for questioning alongside two other people following the shooting on Wednesday (15) outside Union Station in the central region.
The gunshots appear to have been the result of an argument between individuals, police said on Thursday, and turned a sun-soaked party between the Super Bowl champions and their local fans into a horror show. One person died and 21 other people were injured. And it was still Valentine's Day.
Filter said that, at first, he thought he was hearing fireworks. “We didn’t think it was a big deal,” he said. He felt it had been a “great day”, celebrating the Chiefs’ 25-22 victory over San Francisco in the football final last Sunday (11).
Filter and Contreras told the man they knocked down that he “needed to stay down until some officers got us off of him,” Filter said. His wife, Casey, recovered what they believe to be the man's AK-47-style rifle.
Kansas City police did not immediately respond to requests for information about the man pinned down by the two.
Fifteen people suffered life-threatening injuries, and 11 of those injured by the gunfire or the chaos that followed were children, authorities said.
Filter told Reuters he didn't sleep much on Wednesday night and that he and his family were “just trying to figure out why this happened, like everyone else.”
Contreras, the fan who helped Filter control the suspect, told his hometown television station, KETV, in Omaha, Nebraska, that the man appeared to have dropped his gun when Contreras attacked him from behind.
“I kind of hit him from the top and the other guy grabbed him around the waist, and we just put our can on top of him, and he was struggling to get up,” Contreras told the station.
Video filmed after the incident by Contreras' daughter, Alyssa, showed officers surrounding a man on the grass near a concrete barricade, with hundreds of Chiefs fans watching on the other side.
Source: CNN Brasil
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