A Kansas man being praised for his heroic actions during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting told L.A.’s Morning News the first time he heard the gunshots, he didn’t think much of it.
“I didn't think they were gunshots because there was a heavy military presence…they had firepower on top of roofs,” Trey Filter said. “I think a lot of people, if you would ask them, probably felt safe there yesterday because of that.”
A few minutes after the shots, he heard, “let's get him, get him!”
That’s when Filter saw a flash.
“The more I think on this and the time I have to sit with it, I do remember like there [were] other people and he looked sketchier than the others,” he said.
Filter and another man took action, hitting the alleged shooter.
“And at that point, they're screaming, ‘There's a gun! There's a gun!” he recalled.
While Filter and the other man tackled the shooter, Filter’s wife grabbed the gun.
“I thought that he still had a firearm, and the gentleman helping me hold, he was screaming, ‘He's got a gun!’” he said. “So I knew he didn't have the gun. So I tried to reach under the man to feel for it. I didn't feel [a] gun and I saw his ribs were open. So I just started hitting him in his ribs.”
Filter said the police pulled him off the guy. He reunited with his kids and wife and they left. He called it “a hell of a day.”
“We're driving home…as the boys are on their phones like they do and it just kind of went from there,” he said.
A woman was killed and more than 22 people were injured in a shooting after the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade on Wednesday.
Three people were detained in the shooting, according to Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves.
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