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KC Chief’s hero fan, husband and dad, who tackled gunman speaks out

February 15, 2024 | | Print Article

A Kansas City Chiefs fan and his wife rushed to stop one of the mass shooters Wednesday at the team’s Super Bowl parade party.

“Trey and Casey Filter, lifelong Chiefs fans from Wichita, found themselves thrust into a nightmare scenario as gunfire erupted amid the festivities. However, their instinctive response showcased extraordinary courage and selflessness,” according to NewsNation.

Speaking with the New York Post, Trey said that after he heard somebody shout “get him,” he saw someone speeding through the crowd.

“My brain tells me, ‘That must be him [the shooter],'” he recalled.

And so he tackled the man, who it turned out was indeed one of the multiple shooters responsible for the horrific mass shooting:

“I literally remember when I was tackling him, ‘I sure hope this is who they were yelling at me to get.’ Because I just went, ‘boom!’ … I really don’t recall seeing him coming,” Trey said.

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After Trey tackled the shooter, the shooter reportedly wriggled free but was then tackled again by another Chiefs fan. It’s at this point that Trey jumped back in and began punching the shooter’s ribs while Casey lunged for and grabbed the shooter’s gun that he’d dropped.

“I don’t know if I knocked him out when I tackled him or what, but I had him squeezed so hard he might have been passed out all the time for all I know. I just started racking him in his ribs,” Trey recalled.

“I was just yelling, ‘F your gun!’ and I was just hitting him in his ribs. It was great. You know, America stuff,” he added.

Cops arrived soon after and cuffed the shooter, after which Trey stood up and received a round of applause from bystanders.

Trey then retrieved his two sons and reportedly said, “Get your mother. We’re getting the f–k out of here.”

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“We just did what we felt we needed to do in that moment. I don’t think we could have just walked away being right there like that,” Casey later told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo.

She also described what’d been going through her head when she’d spotted the shooter’s gun on the ground.

“That was my first thought when I saw it on the ground right in front of me. It was at my feet. And I just saw it and just moved it,” she said.

Though it was clearly a traumatic experience, their children are reportedly very proud of their dad’s behavior.

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“They’re pretty proud of their dad,” Casey said.

“It’s just really a lot to process and to be grateful for,” Trey added.

Indeed. They survived, for one thing. Sadly, the mass shooting left mother-of-two Lisa Lopez-Galvan deceased.

“It is with sincere sadness and an extremely heavy and broken heart that we let our community know that KKFI DJ Lisa Lopez, host of Taste of Tejano lost her life today in the shooting at the KC Chiefs’ rally,” her employer, radio station KKFI, said in a statement.

“Our hearts and prayers are with her family. We encourage anyone who feels they saw something to reach out to law enforcement at 816 234 5111. This senseless act has taken a beautiful person from her family and this KC Community,” they added.

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The other Kansas City Chiefs fan who helped Trey has since been identified as Paul Contreras.

“It all started off as a celebration. As soon as the celebration was done, we heard eight to 10 pops. Everybody assumed it was fireworks of some sort … until seconds later, we see multiple cops chasing them,” his daughter, Alyssa Marsh-Contreras, told NewsNation.

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