Hundreds attend funeral Mass for the woman killed during a celebration of Chiefs’ Super Bowl win
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral Mass Saturday for a Kansas City-area DJ who was killed when she was shot during a celebration of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral Mass Saturday for a Kansas City-area DJ who was killed when she was shot during a celebration of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory.
Lisa Lopez-Galvan was one of about two dozen people who were shot when gunfire erupted Feb. 14 outside the city’s Union Station. She was remembered during the 90-minute service as a loving wife and mother whose smile could light up a room and who saw each day as a chance for excitement and laughter.
With her casket near the front of Redemptorist Catholic Church in Kansas City, Missouri, mourners — some wearing Chiefs jerseys — also heard a mariachi band play and sing.
Along with her husband and young adult son, Lopez-Galvan, 43, had joined an estimated crowd of 1 million people for the parade and rally. As the festivities ended, a dispute over what authorities described as the belief that people in one group were staring at people in another group led to gunfire.
Lopez-Galvan, a music lover who played at weddings, quinceañeras and an American Legion bar and grill, was caught in the middle of it. Everyone else survived.
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