A lot of uncertainty remains over the shooting incident on Feb. 14 at the parade for the Super Bowl Champions Kansas City Chiefs. First, it was reported that two teenage suspects were responsible. Then, earlier this week, two adult suspects were charged and arrested. Local authorities still will not reveal exactly how many shooters they believe were at the parade.
At the moment, only two men have been charged with second-degree felony murder for the shooting at the Super Bowl parade, Lyndell Mays, 23, and Dominic Miller, 18, the Kansas City Star reported.
Officials finally published a photo of one of the suspects, Mays, on Wednesday after authorities inexplicably refused to do so earlier this week. The other person charged and arrested was Miller. No photo of Miller has been released yet, the Kansas City Star reported. I contacted Michael Mansur, the Director of Communications for the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, hoping he would elaborate, but Mansur did not reply.
The secrecy of the investigation and revelations of this case are highly questionable and a bit concerning. This is especially true regarding the criminal history of one of the suspects, Mays. According to court records I accessed through the Missouri Courts website, one of the suspects police charged on Tuesday, Mays, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for disorderly conduct from an incident on April 21, 2021. Mays pleaded guilty and was sentenced on February 8, 2022, to 90 days in jail and two years of unsupervised probation. Mays served 85 of the 90 days before having his sentence suspended.
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Efforts to inquire about what Mays did to be arrested and plead guilty to disorderly conduct were unsuccessful, as the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office did not return my inquiries, as I mentioned above. However, the Kansas City Star reported that Mays was charged with, incidentally, brandishing a “black handgun during a dispute while playing basketball” at a local community center.
The fact that one of the shooters had a prior criminal record shouldn’t shock anyone. It’s a repeated pattern for suspects involved in these kinds of cases. Within three years, Mays broke the law (at least) twice using a gun. All the anti-gun people and gun control enthusiasts nationwide should explain how adding any additional laws would have prevented Mays from breaking the law again and committing yet another crime.