Veteran details chasing down Kansas City Chiefs parade shooter, credits military training, 'guardian angels'

Lifelong Chiefs fan and Navy veteran Tony Janssens sprang into action when gunfire rang out at the parade, chasing down a shooter through the crowd.

"It didn't sound like fireworks to me," he told Fox News Digital. "And then I heard another couple of rounds go off, and then that's when I dropped to the ground again. I looked over to my right where the shots were coming from, and I see a guy lying on the ground with a couple of bullet holes at his side, and he's already kind of lying down. I kind of understand the severity of the situation. So people are still deciding whether it's fireworks or, you know, what's going on. They're starting to pull up their phones just trying to record stuff. I'm telling everyone, people just to get away. Like, this is real life. You need to get out of here. Like, don't just sit here and try to record or anything. So I'm telling people to leave, leave, leave."  Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace. 

Janssens, who attended the Chiefs parade last year with his girlfriend and a group of friends, said he went alone this year. His girlfriend had to work, and since he was off, he explained how he had decided to walk from where they live downtown to Union Station to enjoy the festivities. That decision, he now hopes in retrospect, helped prevent further bloodshed at the parade.