Court discloses ages of the two teens charged in Kansas City Chiefs rally shooting
The two juveniles charged in connection to the mass shooting at the Chiefs victory rally were 16 years old at the time of the shooting.
The shooting one month ago killed Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a 43-year-old mother and local disc jockey, and two adults separate from the teens have been charged in connection with her death. Dozens more people were injured by gunfire or while fleeing the area near Union Station as the celebration wrapped up.
Two days after the shooting, the two teens were charged with gun-related offenses and resisting arrest.
The Office of the Juvenile Officer acts as a prosecutor for criminal cases brought against minors. Proceedings are held in family court.
At the time, the office declined to disclose their ages or the exact charges.
On Thursday, the legal counsel for the Circuit Court of Jackson County confirmed the two juveniles were 16 at the time they were charged. The court has yet to provide more information about the specific charges the teens are facing or about the way the teens are connected to the shooting incident.
The two teens are being held in the Juvenile Detention Center.
Several cases related to the mass shooting have been filed.
On Feb. 20, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker charged Lyndell Mays, of Raytown, and Dominic Miller, of Kansas City, with second-degree felony murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.
Mays was in a verbal argument with another person that he had no prior history or connection with. That argument quickly escalated and Mays drew a handgun, Baker said.
Almost immediately, others, including Miller, pulled their firearms.
While both men were charged with murder, evidence shows that it was gunfire from Miller’s firearm that struck and killed Lopez-Galvin, Baker said.
On Wednesday, federal charges against three Kansas City men were announced.
The defendants are 22-year-old Fedo Antonia Manning, 21-year-old Ronnel Dwayne Williams Jr. and 19-year-old Chaelyn Hendrick Groves.
Manning faces a 12-count criminal complaint accusing him of one count each of conspiracy to traffic firearms and engaging in firearm sales without a license, and 10 counts of making a false statement on a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives form.
Williams and Groves, who were charged in the same complaint, both face one count each of conspiracy to make false statements in the acquisition of firearms, aiding and abetting the making of false statements in the acquisition of firearms, and making a false statement to a federal agent.
In a separate case, Jose L. Castillo faces one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in Jackson County. He allegedly picked up a handgun following the mass shooting.
Castillo was convicted in July 6, 2016, of a felony for conspiracy to distribute marijuana in U.S. District Court in Kansas, according to court documents. Under Missouri law, it’s against the law for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm.
