--- title: Kansas City Parade Shooting: Kelce, Mahomes Lead Tributes description: Tributes and calls for action to reduce gun violence poured in after a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade. canonical: https://time.com/6695220/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-shooting-victims-tributes/ author: Mallory Moench article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-02-15T11:59:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:24.470Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Kelce, Mahomes Lead Tributes to Kansas City Shooting Victims og:description: Tributes poured in after a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade. og:url: https://time.com/6695220/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-shooting-victims-tributes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce136f516889681f/698a489b457a520efcd68d47/Untitled-design.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kelce, Mahomes Lead Tributes to Kansas City Shooting Victims twitter:description: Tributes poured in after a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce136f516889681f/698a489b457a520efcd68d47/Untitled-design.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes Lead Tributes to Kansas City Chiefs Parade Shooting Victims > Sponsored content. 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What was meant to be a celebratory Super Bowl parade in Kansas City ended in tragedy Wednesday after a shooting incident killed at least one person and injured more than 20 others, according to authorities._ by [Mallory Moench](https://time.com/author/mallory-moench/) ## Mallory Moench Moench was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Feb 15, 2024 11:59 AM UTC  Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl Parade Shooting: Players Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes led tributes for the victims Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl Parade Shooting: Players Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes led tributes for the victimsKelce: Cooper Neill—Getty Images, Mahomes: Michael Owens—Getty Images by [Mallory Moench](https://time.com/author/mallory-moench/) ## Mallory Moench Moench was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Feb 15, 2024 11:59 AM UTC Tributes and calls for action to reduce gun violence poured in from NFL players, their families and political leaders after [a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade](https://time.com/6695035/super-bowl-parade-shooting/) Wednesday killed at least one person and injured more than 20 others, according to authorities. The shooting occurred when the Chiefs, alongside their fans, gathered in downtown Kansas City, Mo. to celebrate the team’s win against the San Francisco 49ers at the Super Bowl LVIII. Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce posted on X, formerly Twitter, that he was “heartbroken over the tragedy that took place today. My heart is with all who came out to celebrate with us and have been affected. KC, you mean the world to me.” Chiefs’ quarterback Patrick Mahomes II, named Super Bowl MVP, posted on his account that he was “praying for Kansas City.” Mahomes' wife, Brittany, wrote on her Instagram story: “Shooting people is never the answer. Praying for Kansas City and America in general, this is rough.” She followed up the post with a longer message that read: “Highly embarrassed and disappointed in this. Super Bowl wins will never be the same because of this, it’s devastating. Lives lost and people injured during something that was suppose \[sic\] to be a celebration. Horrible and traumatizing. So many prayers going to the families involved.” > [](https://twitter.com/tkelce/status/1757944301898682680?s=20) > [](https://twitter.com/PatrickMahomes/status/1757874492733297003?s=20) Meanwhile, the NFL posted on X that it was “deeply saddened by the senseless shooting.” The Chiefs [posted a similar statement on its account ](https://x.com/Chiefs/status/1757898448660038109?s=20)and confirmed all players, coaches, staff, and their families were safe. > [](https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1757910494034424216?s=20) Other Chiefs’ players, including [Mecole Hardman Jr. ](https://x.com/MecoleHardman4/status/1757908050336415965?s=20)and [Trey Smith](https://x.com/treysmith/status/1757876554376388663?s=20%20%5C), posted that they were praying for those affected, with Smith adding a “huge thank you to the first responders who ran towards the sound of danger. You're the ones who should be celebrated today.”  People take cover during a shooting at Union Station during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LVIII victory parade on Feb. 14, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. Jamie Squire–Getty Images Other NFL stars expressed their anger at the incident and called for political action to address mass shootings in the U.S. Fellow Chiefs’ player Justin Reid posted on X that “we cannot allow this to be normal” and said he was praying that “our leaders enact real solutions so our kids’ kids won’t know this violence.” > [](https://twitter.com/JustinqReid/status/1757925339060146359?s=20) Former NFL player Robert Griffin III [shared his frustration](https://x.com/RGIII/status/1757903384152260854?s=20) about the pervasiveness of gun violence. > [](https://twitter.com/RGIII/status/1757868333926318588?s=20) Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas [posted on X](https://x.com/QuintonLucasKC/status/1757924259706343883?s=20) that he was “heartbroken” and vowed to “continue to work hard to ensure assailants are brought to justice, our victims receive exceptional care, all families impacted receive our support and that we as a a city and country do all we can to prevent tragedies like this from ever occurring again.” > [](https://twitter.com/QuintonLucasKC/status/1757924259706343883?s=20) The Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting was at least the 48th mass shooting in the U.S. this year, according to the [Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit tracker](https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours) that defines a mass shooting as one that involves four or more people killed or injured, not including the shooter. As of Thursday morning, two more mass shootings had occurred––one in Baton Rouge and another in Memphis, according to the tracker. As stated in [this article](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/31/1209683893/how-the-u-s-gun-violence-death-rate-compares-with-the-rest-of-the-world) published last year, the U.S. had the 28th highest rate of deaths due to gun violence in the world in 2021—an outlier compared to other developed countries in Europe and Asia where gun death rates were fractions of that in the U.S., according to the [University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/31/1209683893/how-the-u-s-gun-violence-death-rate-compares-with-the-rest-of-the-world), which tracks all causes of death worldwide. President Joe Biden posted a statement on X that “it is the time to act” and urged the public to tell Congress to “finally act to ban assault weapons, to limit high capacity magazines, strengthen background checks, keep guns out of the hands of those who have no business owning or handling them.” Biden, a Democrat, [helped pass](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/04/biden-assault-weapons-ban/) a 10-year ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004 as a former Delaware Senator. The President said he and his wife, Jill, were praying for those killed and injured in Kansas City, and “for our country to find the resolve to end this senseless epidemic of gun violence tearing us at the seams.” > [](https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1757969187362713603?s=20) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6695220/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-shooting-victims-tributes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6695220/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-shooting-victims-tributes/"},"headline":"Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes Lead Tributes to Kansas City Chiefs Parade Shooting Victims","datePublished":"2024-02-15T11:59:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:43:24.470Z","description":"Tributes and calls for action to reduce gun violence poured in after a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade.","url":"https://time.com/6695220/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-shooting-victims-tributes/","keywords":["Guns","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce136f516889681f/698a489b457a520efcd68d47/Untitled-design.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mallory Moench","jobTitle":"Moench was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau.","url":"https://time.com/author/mallory-moench/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce136f516889681f/698a489b457a520efcd68d47/Untitled-design.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce","caption":"Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl Parade Shooting: Players Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes led tributes for the victims","creditText":"Kelce: Cooper Neill—Getty Images, Mahomes: Michael Owens—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/guns/","name":"Guns"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6695220/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-shooting-victims-tributes/","name":"Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes Lead Tributes to Kansas City Chiefs Parade Shooting Victims"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Hospital Gives Update on Child Victims After Chief's Parade Shooting","description":"What was meant to be a celebratory Super Bowl parade in Kansas City ended in tragedy Wednesday after a shooting incident killed at least one person and injured more than 20 others, according to authorities.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/7FqIL8JS/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-02-15T15:03:59.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7FqIL8JS.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/6695220/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-shooting-victims-tributes/","duration":"PT1M15S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/6695220/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-shooting-victims-tributes/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```