Kansas City parade shooting suspect Lyndell Mays reveals what led to melee, says he ‘randomly picked’ target
One of the men charged in the deadly Kansas City parade shooting admitted that he “randomly picked” a target to fire at during a heated argument, while the other gunman was caught on video shooting his gun while falling over, according to court documents that paint a picture of how chaotic and quickly the scene unfurled.
Lyndell Mays, 23, and Dominic Miller, 18, were part of two separate groups bickering at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade when Mays claimed he feared for his life and fired his weapon first, according to Mays’ interview with police.
Despite hesitating at first “because he knew there were kids there,” Mays told police he “picked one of the individuals in the group at random, and started shooting.”
Police said it took about 17 seconds for Mays’ group and Miller’s group to get into an argument, with Miller allegedly “taking up a strategic position” in the crowd as he watched the conflict from just a few feet away.
As soon as Mays pulled out his gun and started chasing a member of Miller’s group, the 18-year-old and other members of the group pulled out their own firearms, with Mays firing at the unarmed person running away from him, according to the court documents.
Miller and his group fired and chased after Mays within the crowd, with Miller shooting while “he’s in between two random people,” police noted.
The teenager was then shot in the lower back and fell to the ground, but he got up and allegedly continued to fire in Mays’ direction, where mother-of-two Lisa Lopez Gavlan, 43, was standing and looking at the parade before she was fatally struck.
Police traced back a bullet from the victim’s body to Miller’s 9mm handgun, according to the court records.
As he fired his weapon, police said footage of the incident suggests Miller was still shooting in Mays’ direction even while tripping over a street cone.
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Along with Gavlan and the shooters, the hectic scene left another 20 people, including 12 children, wounded.
Of the victims, ranging in age from 8 to 47, one was left in critical condition and two were reported to be improving over the weekend.
Both Miller and Mays face charges of second-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. Both men are currently being held on $1 million bonds.
Two teens who were allegedly involved in the shooting have also been slapped with gun and resisting arrest charges.
While they have been charged as minors, officials said the charges could be upgraded and the teens would be tried as adults.
