Three Missouri men have been charged with federal gun charges in connection to the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting.
Federal prosecutors charged Fedo Antonia Manning, 22, Ronnel Dewayne Williams, Jr., 21 and Chaelyn Hendrick Groves, 19, for illegal firearms trafficking and straw purchases of firearms.
The shooting killed Lisa Lopez-Galvan and wounded two dozen others on February 14 during the celebrations of the team’s Super Bowl win.
Court documents said 12 people brandished firearms and at least six people fired weapons at the parade.
‘At least two of the firearms recovered from the scene of the mass shooting at Union Station were illegally purchased or trafficked,’ said U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore.
Manning is charged with one count each of conspiracy to traffic firearms and engaging in firearm sales without a license, and 10 counts of making a false statement on a federal form.
Williams and Groves are charged with making false statements in the acquisition of firearms, and lying to a federal agent.
Federal prosecutors said that one weapon recovered at the rally scene was an Anderson Manufacturing AM-15 .223-caliber pistol, found along a wall with a backpack next to two AR-15-style firearms and a backpack.
The firearm was in the ‘fire’ position with 26 rounds in a magazine capable of holding 30 rounds – meaning some rounds may have been fired from it.
The affidavit stated that Manning bought the AM-15 from a gun store in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, a Kansas City suburb, on August 7, 2022. He is accused of illegally trafficking dozens of firearms, including many AM-15s.
Also recovered at the scene was a Stag Arms 300-caliber pistol that the complaint said was purchased by Williams during a gun show in November. Prosecutors said Williams bought the gun for Groves, who accompanied him to the show but was too young to legally purchase a gun for himself.
Prosecutors said Manning and Williams also bought firearm receivers, gun parts also known as frames that can be built into complete weapons by adding other, sometimes non-regulated components.
The complaint said Manning was the straw buyer of guns later sold to a confidential informant in a separate investigation.
The federal charges come three weeks after state authorities charged two other men, Lyndell Mays and Dominic Miller, with second-degree murder and several weapons counts for the shootings. Authorities also last month detained two juveniles.
Police said the shooting happened when one group of people confronted another for staring at them.