Chiefs Fan Describes Harrowing Moment He Tackled Suspect After Parade Shooting
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“He got close to me. I got the right angle on him," Paul Contreras said after he stopped a man after the mass shooting in Kansas City.
A man at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade described the harrowing moment when he tackled a man suspected in the deadly shooting that broke out Wednesday amid the celebration.
Paul Contreras told media outlets that he was at the parade with his daughter near Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, when he heard someone yell to stop a man and tackle him as the crowd erupted into chaos. At least one person was killed and 22 others were injured in the shooting.
“You don’t think about it. It’s just a reaction,” Contreras, a resident of Omaha, Nebraska, said in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett. “He got close to me, I got the right angle on him. And when I hit him from behind, I either jarred the gun out of his hand or out of his sleeve. … I see the gun on the ground.”
“I’m putting all my body weight on him, and another Good Samaritan comes over,” he said. “We’re just putting our weight on him, and he’s just fighting to get up, but we’re fighting to keep him down.”
Video from the scene appears to show Contreras run toward the suspect and tackle him before police arrive. Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said at a news conference Wednesday that she knew about the video of bystanders tackling a suspect but could not yet confirm that the person tackled was one of the three people detained by police.
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