Funeral held for girl killed throughout Chiefs parade taking pictures

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tons of of mourners attended a funeral mass Saturday for a Kansas Metropolis-area DJ who was killed when she was shot throughout a celebration of the Chiefs’ Tremendous Bowl victory.

Lisa Lopez-Galvan was one in every of about two dozen individuals who have been shot when gunfire erupted Feb. 14 outdoors town’s Union Station. She was 43.

She was remembered throughout the 90-minute service as a loving spouse and mom whose smile might gentle up a room and who noticed every day as an opportunity for pleasure and laughter.

Together with her casket close to the entrance of the Redemptorist Catholic Church in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, mourners — some sporting Chiefs jerseys — additionally heard a mariachi band play and sing.

Alongside together with her husband and younger grownup son, Lopez-Galvan had joined an estimated crowd of 1 million folks for the parade and rally. Because the festivities ended, a dispute over what authorities described as the assumption that individuals in a single group have been observing folks in one other group led to gunfire.

Lopez-Galvan, a music lover who performed at weddings, quinceañeras and an American Legion bar and grill, was caught in the course of it. Everybody else survived.

Two males are charged in her loss of life, and two juveniles face gun costs. Her household responded to the fees this week with an announcement expressing due to police and prosecutors.

“Although it doesn’t deliver again our beloved Lisa, it’s comforting,” the assertion started.

Gamers and celebrities have reached out to her household. Pop famous person Taylor Swift, who’s regularly within the stands throughout Chiefs video games as a result of she is relationship tight finish Travis Kelce, donated $100,000 to Lopez-Galvan’s household.

And since she was sporting a jersey of Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker on the celebration, he responded to requests on social media in search of assist in acquiring an analogous jersey — presumably so the mom of two might be laid to relaxation in it.

“Whereas the household is mourning their loss and grappling with their quite a few accidents, I’ll proceed to hope for his or her therapeutic and the repose of Lisa’s soul,” Butker mentioned in an announcement.

Rosa Izurieta and Martha Ramirez labored with Lopez-Galvan for a couple of 12 months at an area staffing agency however had recognized her since childhood. They remembered her as an extrovert and a staunch Catholic who was dedicated to her household, enthusiastic about connecting job seekers with employment and able to assist anybody.

And, they mentioned, working half time enjoying music allowed her to share her ardour as one of many space’s few Latina DJs.

“This mindless act has taken an exquisite individual from her household and this KC Neighborhood,” the radio station KKFI-FM, the place she was the co-host of a program known as “Style of Tejano,” mentioned in an announcement.

Izurieta and Ramirez mentioned Lopez-Galvan’s Kansas Metropolis roots run deep. Her father based town’s first mariachi group, Mariachi Mexico, within the Eighties, they mentioned, and the household is well-known and lively within the Latino group. Her brother, Beto Lopez, is CEO of the Guadalupe Facilities, which gives group providers and runs constitution colleges for the Latino group.

Lopez-Galvan and her two youngsters went to Bishop Miege, a Catholic highschool in a suburb on the Kansas facet, and she or he labored for years as a clerk in a police division there.

“That is one other instance of an actual loving, actual human whose life was taken tragically with a mindless act,” Beto Lopez mentioned in an interview final week on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”