During the Kansas City Chiefs parade shooting, a suspect was tackled by bystanders, with one calling the act “America stuff.”
One person was killed and 21 others wounded.
The man resisted arrest, leading to a struggle where a gun was dropped.
Bystanders, including Trey Filter and Paul Contreras, helped restrain the suspect.
“My brain tells me, ‘That must be him,’” Filter recalled.
“I literally remember when I was tackling him, ‘I sure hope this is who they were yelling at me to get.’ Because I just went, ‘Boom!’ … I really don’t recall seeing him coming,” he said.
Dad who tackled alleged Kansas City Chiefs parade shooter speaks out: ‘Started racking him in his ribs’ https://t.co/rzDscd1iWp pic.twitter.com/cRFOvrhiuJ
— New York Post (@nypost) February 15, 2024
“I don’t know if I knocked him out when I tackled him or what, but I had him squeezed so hard, he might have been passed out all the time for all I know. I just started racking him in his ribs,” Filter said.
“I was just yelling, ‘F your gun!’ and I was just hitting him in his ribs. It was great. You know, America stuff,” Filter said.
“Then it’s almost like a mouse is loose in the house and everybody’s jumping,” he said.
An Omaha hero tackled one of the suspected shooters at today's tragic mass shooting in Kansas City.
"I didn't think about it. It's just a reaction. I didn't hesitate – just do it," said Paul Contreras. #omaha | #chiefsparade pic.twitter.com/DU7RvBEPkD
— Bill Schammert (@BillSchammert) February 15, 2024
Filter expressed a desire to set a good example for his sons by attending the event.
“I literally just wanted to get some good points in my kids. I felt bad for taking them out of school, but it’s a unique situation, we’re in Kansas. ‘Let’s go to this thing.’ We went last year. I just wanted some dad points. I’m really glad we’re not in the other boat that those people are in,” Filter said.
“We’re looking at one another. You know, like, ‘Hell yeah, like we got this guy.’”
“And so then people were still yelling, ‘He’s got a gun. He has a gun.’ We were just focused on keeping him down. And then, you know, kind of make sure he didn’t go anywhere,” he said.
Contreras described the chaotic scene and how he reacted instinctively to stop the suspect.
Heroes in #chiefs gear tackling the
*€£# out of reports suspect. @KMBZradio pic.twitter.com/O3jBYIL96X— Dana Wright🎙 (@RadioDana) February 14, 2024
“The whole time he’s fighting to get up and run away,” Contreras said. “We’re fighting each other, you know. We’re fighting to keep him down and he’s fighting to get up.”
“I just heard somebody yelling to stop this guy, tackle him and he was coming in the opposite direction,” he said.
“You don’t think about it, it’s just a reaction. He got close to me, I got the right angle on him, and I hit him from behind. And when I hit him from behind I either jarred the gun out of his hand or out of his sleeve, ’cause as I’m taking him down to the ground, I see the gun on the ground,” Contreras said.
“He’s just fighting to get up, but we’re fighting to keep him down,” he said.
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