Heroic Chiefs Fan Speaks Out, Says He Started Doing ‘America Stuff’ After Tackling Parade Suspect

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One of the men who stopped a suspect in the Kansas City Chiefs parade shooting called the effort to tackle him and hold him down for police “America stuff.”

At least one person was killed and as many as 21 other people were wounded Wednesday at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade in Kansas City, according to NBC News. Of the wounded, eight had “immediately life-threatening” injuries while seven had life-threatening injuries, Kansas City Fire Chief Ross Grundyson said.

Chiefs fan Trey Filter of Wichita, Kansas, was not sure what was taking place, but as he heard voices calling “get him,” he knew what he needed to do.

“My brain tells me, ‘That must be him,’” Filter told the New York Post.

“I literally remember when I was tackling him, ‘I sure hope this is who they were yelling at me to get.’ Because I just went, ‘Boom!’ … I really don’t recall seeing him coming,” he said of the man, who was among three people arrested in the shooting.

The man did not go quietly but struggled as Filter and another man tried to keep him down. In the struggle, the gun was dropped, leading Casey Filter, Trey’s wife, to grab it.

“I don’t know if I knocked him out when I tackled him or what, but I had him squeezed so hard, he might have been passed out all the time for all I know. I just started racking him in his ribs,” Filter said.

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