Dominic Miller and Lindell Mays are charged with second-degree murder in the shooting that left one person dead and more than 20 injured.
Two men have been charged with murder in the United States after a shootout outside a Super Bowl victory rally in Kansas City left one person dead and more than 20 injured, prosecutors and court documents say. He was indicted.
Lindell Mays and Dominique Miller have been charged with second-degree murder and multiple counts of possession of a deadly weapon in the shooting that began after an argument over eye contact, Missouri prosecutors told reporters Tuesday. announced that it had been done.
The arrests of Mays and Miller bring the number of people charged in connection with the Valentine's Day shooting to four.
Last week, two teenagers were also taken into custody and charged as juveniles in family court with firearms offenses and resisting arrest. Prosecutors said they are continuing their investigation with the intention of charging the two minors as adults.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said an investigation determined the Feb. 14 assault stemmed from an altercation between Mays and another person he didn't know. .
Baker told reporters that the argument between the two men “escalated quickly,” and when May pulled out a handgun, others in the vicinity pulled out their weapons “almost immediately.”
Mays and Miller are charged with murder, but Baker is accused of attacking and killing radio personality Elizabeth Lopez Galván, 43, with a bullet fired from Miller's weapon. He said that the evidence shows that.
Police previously said Mays was one of 23 people shot, including at least nine children, but the court filing against Mays The total number of known shooting victims, including López-Galván, is 25, according to the documents.
According to the affidavit, Mays told detectives that he started firing after someone in the group said, “We're going to get you,” meaning they were going to kill him. That's what he received.
Documents say he picked a person at random from a group of others and opened fire as the person was trying to run away.
According to an affidavit, Miller initially told investigators that he heard gunshots and started running with his friends and was shot in the back. When investigators told Miller there was video of him chasing and firing at someone in Mays' group, Miller admitted to firing four or five shots, according to the affidavit.
Authorities have not released the ages of either man, but court records say Mays is in his early 20s and Miller is 18 or 19.
The shooting occurred after a parade and rally near the city's landmark Union Station as the Kansas City Chiefs celebrated their Super Bowl victory over the San Francisco 49ers. Police said more than 1 million fans had gathered at the station.
The broadcast of the NFL Championship Game on February 11th drew record television viewership, due in part to increased media attention surrounding the romance between Chiefs forward Travis Kelce and pop superstar Taylor Swift. Although she attended the Super Bowl, she did not attend the rally.
According to probable cause statements filed by prosecutors in connection with the criminal charges filed against Mays and Miller, both men were themselves hospitalized with gunshot wounds sustained during the violence.
A conviction for second-degree murder in Missouri carries a sentence of 10 to 30 years or life in prison.
The shooting was at least the 48th mass shooting in the United States in 2024, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and includes incidents in which four or more people, not including the gunman, were shot to death.
There have been 55 mass shootings so far this year.