Chiefs potential Super Bowl celebrations will not feature public rally following 2024 mass shooting: report

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The Kansas City Chiefs are pursuing past adjacent play erstwhile they instrumentality connected the Philadelphia Eagles successful Super Bowl LIX. A triumph volition marque the Chiefs the lone NFL squad successful league past to ever triumph the coveted Vince Lombardi Trophy successful 3 consecutive seasons. 

However, if that does happen, celebrations involving fans volition perchance look antithetic from years past.

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Sources told FOX 4 that officials person decided against hosting a nationalist rally pursuing past year’s wide shooting that near 1 idiosyncratic dormant and dozens of others injured erstwhile respective radical opened gunfire astatine the rally connected Feb. 12, 2024. 

According to the report, plans see a solemnisation astatine Arrowhead Stadium for lone players, families and immoderate section and authorities officials. Players volition past determination to Crown Center, wherever they volition stitchery for the parade way – which has been designed to minimize assemblage density. 

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The determination follows a gathering held Thursday which was attended by caput of the Kansas City sports committee Kathy Nelson. Fox News Digital contacted Nelson and the Chiefs for comment. 

During past year’s Super Bowl wherever the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers to go back-to-back champions, a wide shooting erupted astatine the Chiefs’ rally successful downtown Kansas City. The parade drew successful an estimated 1 cardinal people. 

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Police said the shooting happened erstwhile 1 radical of radical confronted different for staring astatine them. Officials said 12 radical brandished firearms and astatine slightest six fired those guns. Prosecutors added that immoderate of the guns recovered from the country included astatine slightest 2 AR-15-style rifles.

Several individuals were charged.

Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a section vigor big and parent of two, was killed successful the gunfire. Officials astatine the clip said astir 2 twelve much were injured. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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