Judge sentences teen for role in Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting

Multiple people have been charged with murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade in February.

This week, one of the juveniles was sentenced to a Missouri Department of Youth Services detention center, The Associated Press confirmed. The 15-year-old, whose full name was withheld because of his age, said the events outside Kansas City’s Union Station on Feb. 14 did not accurately represent his character.

“It’s not me,” the teen, known as “RG” in court documents, said at a hearing Thursday. He did, however, acknowledge charges of “unlawful use of a weapon by knowingly discharging or shooting at a person,” the AP reported.

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A memorial to the victims of the mass shooting outside Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, is seen on February 18. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)

The teen described himself as a good kid before getting involved with the wrong people, the Kansas City Star reported.

Jackson County prosecutors said the shooting happened during an altercation between two groups. Lyndell Mays, one of three men charged with murder in the death of local DJ Lisa Lopez Galvan, is accused of being the first person to open fire.

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After that, RG began shooting toward Mays and hit another person in his own group, Dominic Miller, who is also charged with murder, Kansas City police Detective Grant Spiking said.

“You made bad choices, but that doesn’t make you a bad person. That doesn’t make you a bad child,” Jackson County Family Court Administrative Judge Jennifer Phillips told the teen in a proceeding similar to a sentencing hearing in adult court.

A law enforcement officer examines the scene after a shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 14.

Commitment to a state Department of Youth Services facility typically lasts nine to 12 months, said a deputy juvenile court officer for Jackson County Circuit Court.

Earlier this month, Phillips accepted the teen’s plea that he committed the charge of unlawful use of a weapon by knowingly discharging or firing a firearm at a person.

The Jackson County Juvenile Officer’s Office, which oversees juvenile cases, dismissed a second charge, armed criminal action, and agreed not to go through the certification process that could see the teen’s case sent to adult court.

Law enforcement is investigating following a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 14. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)

Jon Bailey, the teenager’s lawyer, asked that he be released under an intensive monitoring program and placed under house arrest with the condition that he not use social media.

“Our house is not a home without him,” the teen’s mother told Phillips.

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But a lawyer representing the juvenile court argued that time spent in the youth center would help separate the teen from any negative peer influences.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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