The NFL season once again ended with the Kansas City Chiefs, led by head coach Andy Reid, raising to Lombardi Trophy. Unfortunately, the parade to celebrate Kansas City’s win was overshadowed by a deadly shooting.
The shooting led to the death of Lisa Lopez-Galvan while 22 other people were injured.
Now, in the wake of that shooting, Reid has shared a message of support for the city of Kansas City. That makes Reid the first person since the shooting that someone from the organization has spoken about it.
“I want to share my condolences for the Galvan and Lopez family for their loss of Lisa, and for the people of Kansas City,” Reid said at the NFL Combine. “She was a personality there, and a very good human being, first of all. We’ll all miss her, as I know her family will.”
Andy Reid also went on to emphasize that he wants people to come together to fix problems.
“Just a positive word on Kansas City,” Reid said. “That’s not what Kansas City is all about — and for our youth of America, that we gather together and make this great, you’re our future and as great as we can make this place, we want to do that. So we can turn this, which was a negative, into a real positive. With just a little togetherness and love we can fix a lot of problems.”
Dominic M. Miller and Lyndell Mays have been charged with second-degree murder in Lisa Lopez-Galvan’s death.
High schooler recalls shooting, Andy Reid hugging him
Shortly following the shooting, high school sophomore Gabe Wallace recalled the moment that the shooting happened. He also remembered being comforted by Andy Reid in that moment.
“He [was] trying to comfort me,” Wallace said.
“I heard just like ‘Boom boom!’ like real quick. And then the security guard was like, ‘Get over the barricade, get in Union Stat — get over here right now, come on, come on, let’s go.’ So we went into to Union Station, like I had no idea if my friends are OK — it’s terrible. The security guard was like ‘Get over the damn fence right now, there’s a shooter.’ We hop over, I hit my face on accident. But then — so I headed in there, I had no idea where he was. I head in there, there was like an FBI agent, she was like, ‘Are you OK? Find your friends’ and everything.”
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