KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Three males from Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, face firearms fees, together with gun trafficking, after an investigation into the mass capturing in the course of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ Tremendous Bowl parade and rally, federal prosecutors mentioned Wednesday. The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in Kansas Metropolis mentioned that 22-year-old Fedo Antonia Manning, was charged in a 12-count criticism. Ronnel Dewayne Williams Jr., 21, and Chaelyn Hendrick Groves, 19, had been charged in four-count complaints. The costs had been filed Monday and unsealed Wednesday, after the boys had been arrested, a information launch from the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned. Courtroom paperwork that had been a part of the criticism mentioned 12 folks brandished firearms and no less than six folks fired weapons on the rally attended by an estimated 1 million folks on Feb. 14. One girl died and almost two dozen different folks had been injured.
It wasn’t instantly clear if any of the suspects had attorneys.
The brand new complaints made public Wednesday don’t allege that the boys had been among the many shooters. As an alternative, they’re accused of involvement in straw purchases and trafficking firearms.
“Stopping straw patrons and stopping unlawful firearms trafficking is our first line of protection towards gun violence,” U.S. Lawyer Teresa Moore mentioned within the information launch. “No less than two of the firearms recovered from the scene of the mass capturing at Union Station had been illegally bought or trafficked.”
Federal prosecutors mentioned that one weapon recovered on the rally scene was a loaded Anderson Manufacturing AM-15 .223-caliber pistol, discovered alongside a wall with a backpack subsequent to 2 AR-15-style firearms and a backpack. The discharge mentioned the firearm was within the “hearth” place with 26 rounds in {a magazine} able to holding 30 rounds — which means some rounds might have been fired from it.
An affidavit acknowledged that Manning purchased the AM-15 from a gun retailer in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, a Kansas Metropolis suburb, on Aug. 7, 2022. It accuses him of illegally trafficking dozens of firearms, together with many AM-15s.
Additionally recovered on the scene was a Stag Arms 300-caliber pistol that the criticism mentioned was bought by Williams throughout a gun present in November. Prosecutors say Williams purchased the gun for Groves, who accompanied him to the present however was too younger to legally buy a gun for himself.
Two males, Lyndell Mays, of Raytown, Missouri, and Dominic Miller, of Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, had been earlier charged with second-degree homicide and several other weapons counts. Authorities additionally detained two juveniles final week on gun-related and resisting arrest fees.