Investigators search for answers in the Super Bowl shooting in Kansas City

Moments after hearing gunshots, Chasitty Logsdon, a 39-year-old nurse from Louisville, Kentucky, said she ran to a man on the ground nearby, blood pouring around him. A woman next to the man told Mrs. Logsdon that he had been shot in the head, so Mrs. Logsdon took his pulse and began performing compressions. When medics arrived, Ms. Logsdon said, they took over. She said she knew she had to do what she could to save the man.

“If that was my someone,” Ms. Logsdon said, she said she thought, “I would want the same thing.”

The governors of Kansas and Missouri were both at the meeting. Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas had to be evacuated and she posted on social media that she had been “moved out of harm's way.” Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and his wife were both “safe,” the governor's office said on social media.

Quinton Lucas, the mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, said he was at the parade with his wife and mother and was in Union Station when he heard gunfire.

“When you have people who decide to bring guns to events, when you have people who decide to mar events – festive events, like this one – we all start to become members of this club that none of us want to be. part of it,” Mr. Lucas said.

Kansas City players posted messages of support on social media. Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback who led his team to victory over San Francisco on Sunday, said he was “praying for Kansas City.” Tight end Travis Kelce wrote that he was “heartbroken,” adding, “KC, you mean the world to me.”

Gun violence has declined in some parts of the country, but Kansas City, Missouri, saw a record number of the number of murders in 2023. That was true 183 murders last yearmore than the previous record of 179 in 2020.

Reporting was contributed by Traci Angel, Gaya Gupta, Robert Gebeloff And Jesus Jimenez. Susan C. Beachy And Sheelagh McNeill research contributed.