A Kansas City radio DJ was killed Wednesday in a shooting near the Chiefs’ Super Bowl triumph parade, according to the radio terminal and her sis.
In a declaration on its Facebook web page, KKFI validated the fatality of DJ Lisa Lopez-Galvan, co-host of “Taste of Tejano.”
“It is with sincere sadness and an extremely heavy and broken heart that we let our community know that KKFI DJ Lisa Lopez, host of Taste of Tejano lost her life today in the shooting at the KC Chiefs’ rally. Our hearts and prayers are with her family,” the declaration checked out.
Her sis Carmen Lopez Murguia additionally validated the fatality to NBC News.
Kansas City Police has actually not openly determined any one of the targets.
Lopez-Galvan, whose DJ name was “Lisa G,” started co-hosting “Taste of Tejano” in March 2022, rotating documents on Tuesdays from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., according to her biography on the terminal’s web site. For Lopez-Galvan, songs was “life and a source of happiness,” her biography stated, and she additionally functioned as a DJ for personal events and occasions for greater than 15 years, playing to multilingual groups.
Her other “Taste of Tejano” co-host Tommy Andrade shared his last words to Lopez-Galvan in social media sites article, creating that he informed “Be careful and have fun! I’ll see you next Tuesday!”
Friend Rosa Izurieta informed The Associated Press that Lopez-Galvan participated in the parade with her partner and her grown-up boy, a die-hard Kansas City sporting activities follower that additionally was fired.
“She’s the type of person who would jump in front of a bullet for anybody — that would be Lisa,” Izurieta stated.
At the very least 21 individuals, consisting of 11 kids in between the ages of 6 and 15, were struck by shooting in Wednesday shooting, which unravelled at the end of the Chiefs’ rally to commemorate the group’s Super Bowl win, authorities stated. Thousands of followers were collected midtown when shots sounded out and horrified paradegoers ran for cover at yet an additional prominent public occasion in the U.S. altered by weapon physical violence.
Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves stated at a press conference Wednesday night that 3 individuals had actually been collared and guns were recuperated. She stated cops were still assembling what occurred and did not launch information concerning those that were apprehended or a feasible objective.
“I’m angry at what happened today. The people who came to this celebration should expect a safe environment.” Graves stated.
Kansas City has actually long fought with weapon physical violence, and in 2020 it was amongst 9 cities targeted by the U.S. Justice Department in an initiative to punish fierce criminal activity. In 2023 the city matched a document with 182 murders, a lot of which engaged weapons.
