Trey Filter, one of two men who helped tackle a man with a gun after the Kansas City Chiefs victory parade, told Newsmax on Thursday that he and his wife Casey, who moved the weapon away from the man, have not been contacted by authorities and do not yet know if the man they stopped is a suspect in a shooting that killed one and wounded dozens more.
"We were just enjoying the end of the parade like everybody else," Trey Filter told "National Report," noting that he and his wife and their sons, ages 15 and 12 drove from Wichita, Kansas, for the parade.
He said they found it "comforting" that there were gunmen on the roofs near the Union Station victory rally, but as the parade was over, the family heard gunshots while heading to their car.
"I was under the impression that was probably a jokester or somebody with firecrackers," he said, but while people were running, he noticed "one guy" who "didn't look like the other people. He was running for different reasons."
Filter said that he and another person at the rally, identified as Paul Contreras, stopped the man and got him down and that he was under the impression he still had the gun.
"My wife here grabbed the assault rifle and [dragged] it away over here to this wall," he said.
He noted that he hit the man "in his ribs" until the police arrived and he was pulled off.
"I was concerned about where my family and kids were, so once I rounded them up, we got out of there," he said.
Casey Filter said the gun landed by her feet and her first thought was to get it out of the way so nobody else could get hold of it.
But her husband said that as they left the scene soon after, they have not spoken to any law enforcement about what happened.
There was initial talk that the shootings may have been gang-related, and Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said at a briefing Thursday that two of the people involved were juveniles and that a personal dispute, not an act of terrorism, is suspected.
Trey Filter said he also would "lean toward the gang thing," even though he knows from when was younger, "gang activity did not involve shooting 20 rounds into a mass of people … but again, we don't know."
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Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics.
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