<p>The parade Wednesday to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Missouri city’s streets, a sea of fans clad in the team’s trademark red.</p><p>But when gunfire began near Union Station, a downtown transit center and tourist hub, around 2 p.m., chaos erupted. Many attendees said it was hard to know where to go.</p><p>At first, the shots sounded like fireworks, said Ian Johnson, who had been selling hot dogs near the main event stage. Only when fans started running — some of them took shelter under his hot dog tent — did he realise that a shooting was underway.</p><p>Courtney Brown, of Independence, Missouri, and her two sons were also near the stage when the gunfire began. She didn’t hear shots, she said. But she did hear someone shout: “Get down.”</p><p>Her instincts told her to flee, so she told her children to keep moving. “We were almost trampled twice,” she said. The three of them locked arms and huddled near a barricade until the crush of the crowd had eased.</p>.One killed, at least 21 injured at Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City.<p>Adrian Robinson had traveled to Kansas City from Gary, Indiana, to sell T-shirts. He heard what he thought were a few firecrackers popping, and then he saw hundreds of people running down the street. A minute later, the same people were running back in the opposite direction.</p><p>“People were traumatized, man,” Robinson said. “They were crying. Hyperventilating.”</p><p>The police said that they had detained three people after the shooting. But as the crowds began to disperse, some parade attendees were left stranded.</p><p>Zachary Dial and his family had traveled from Richmond, Missouri, and parked in a garage by Union Station. A few hours after the parade was over, their car was still off limits, stuck behind crime scene tape, he said.</p><p>Quinton Lucas, the mayor of Kansas City, had also been downtown for the celebration. “I was there with my wife; I was there with my mother,” he said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.</p><p>“We never would have thought that we, along with Chiefs players, along with fans, hundreds of thousands of people, would be forced to run for our safety today.”</p>
<p>The parade Wednesday to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Missouri city’s streets, a sea of fans clad in the team’s trademark red.</p><p>But when gunfire began near Union Station, a downtown transit center and tourist hub, around 2 p.m., chaos erupted. Many attendees said it was hard to know where to go.</p><p>At first, the shots sounded like fireworks, said Ian Johnson, who had been selling hot dogs near the main event stage. Only when fans started running — some of them took shelter under his hot dog tent — did he realise that a shooting was underway.</p><p>Courtney Brown, of Independence, Missouri, and her two sons were also near the stage when the gunfire began. She didn’t hear shots, she said. But she did hear someone shout: “Get down.”</p><p>Her instincts told her to flee, so she told her children to keep moving. “We were almost trampled twice,” she said. The three of them locked arms and huddled near a barricade until the crush of the crowd had eased.</p>.One killed, at least 21 injured at Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City.<p>Adrian Robinson had traveled to Kansas City from Gary, Indiana, to sell T-shirts. He heard what he thought were a few firecrackers popping, and then he saw hundreds of people running down the street. A minute later, the same people were running back in the opposite direction.</p><p>“People were traumatized, man,” Robinson said. “They were crying. Hyperventilating.”</p><p>The police said that they had detained three people after the shooting. But as the crowds began to disperse, some parade attendees were left stranded.</p><p>Zachary Dial and his family had traveled from Richmond, Missouri, and parked in a garage by Union Station. A few hours after the parade was over, their car was still off limits, stuck behind crime scene tape, he said.</p><p>Quinton Lucas, the mayor of Kansas City, had also been downtown for the celebration. “I was there with my wife; I was there with my mother,” he said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.</p><p>“We never would have thought that we, along with Chiefs players, along with fans, hundreds of thousands of people, would be forced to run for our safety today.”</p>