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Washington (AFP) - La jeune star du rugby gallois Louis Rees-Zammit a signé un contrat avec les Kansas City Chiefs, en Ligue professionnelle de football américain (NFL), a confirmé vendredi la franchise double championne en titre du Super Bowl. "Rees-Lightning est arrivé", ont écrit les Chiefs sur X (ex-Twitter) dans un message de bienvenue, avec un émoji d'éclair et une photo du Gallois de 23 ans jouant pour son pays d'origine. "Bonjour Chiefs Kingdom. Ici Louis Rees-Zammit. Je viens de signer. J'ai hâte d'aller vous voir tous au Arrowhead", le stade de Kansas City, a pour sa part déclaré le ...
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Back-to-back Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs have signed European rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit to a three-year contract, the NFL team said on Friday. A member of the Wales national team since 2020, Rees-Zammit announced in January that he was leaving rugby for an opportunity in the NFL. His next task will be to try to earn a regular-season roster spot. Rees-Zammit played rugby as a wing. In the NFL, he has targeted a hybrid role playing at both wide receiver and running back, both offensive positions. The player participated in the International Player Pathway Program workout earlier t...
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Washington (AFP) - Two men have been charged with murder over the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade which left one person dead and 22 wounded, officials said Tuesday. Dominic Miller and Lyndell Mays, both local residents, were charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker told reporters. Peters Baker said Mays got into a verbal altercation with other individuals at the parade that "very quickly escalated." She said Miller allegedly fired the shots that killed a local DJ, Lisa Lopez-Galvan. P...
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New York (AFP) - Football star Travis Kelce is helping survivors of the shooting that marred the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade, after his world-famous girlfriend Taylor Swift did the same, NBC news reported Saturday. The shooting on February 14 left one woman dead and 22 people injured — including two girls in the Reyes family. Kelce's Eighty-Seven Running foundation made two $50,000 donations to a GoFundMe raising money to support the Reyes family, a Kelce representative confirmed to NBC. Travis was following in the famous footsteps of Swift, who on Friday donated $100,000 to...
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Washington (AFP) - Two teenagers have been charged in connection with the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade which left one person dead and 22 wounded, officials said Friday. The pair, who were not identified because of their ages, are facing gun-related charges and accused of resisting arrest, the juvenile division of the 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County said in a statement. "Additional charges are expected in the future," it added. The two teenagers were arrested following the shooting, which took place on Wednesday at the victory parade which had attracted up to a mill...
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New York (AFP) - Taylor Swift donated $100,000 on Friday to a fundraiser supporting the family of the woman killed in a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade. The GoFundMe page was set up one day prior, aiming to raise $75,000 for the family of Elizabeth Lopez-Galvan, who died in the shooting that also left 22 people injured, including several children. "Sending my deepest sympathies and condolences in the wake of your devastating loss. With love, Taylor Swift, read a message next to a $50,000 donation to the cause. A second donation in the same amount was deposite...
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Kansas City (AFP) - The shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory rally that left one person dead and 22 injured, including several children, was a personal altercation and two juveniles were among those detained, police said Thursday. Up to a million jubilant fans had gathered in unseasonably warm weather for the parade of NFL champions when shots rang out just before 2:00 pm Wednesday. "There was no nexus to terrorism or homegrown violent extremism. This appeared to be a dispute between several people that ended in gunfire," Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves told reporters...
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Washington (AFP) - "Sahil Omar" is 44, an illegal immigrant and has a Muslim-sounding name -- an apparently fictitious punching bag falsely linked to a slew of US crimes including the latest mass shooting in Kansas City. Two juveniles were among the suspects detained after a mass shooting on Wednesday at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory rally, which left one person dead and 22 wounded, police said. But self-styled sleuths on social media sites, including Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter), falsely identified one of the shooters as "Omar." "At least one of the Kansas City Chiefs parade ...
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Kansas City (AFP) - One person was killed and children were among the 21 injured after a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory rally on Wednesday triggered panic among huge crowds of fans. Shots rang out moments after jubilant Chiefs players addressed a vast, cheering crowd, sending shocked fans and VIPs fleeing in a tragic end to what had been a joyous morning of celebrating the NFL champions. Police said three people had been taken into custody after the attack near Kansas City's Union Station, but the motive behind the shooting was still under investigation. Fire depar...
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One person was killed and more than 20 people were wounded in a shooting in Kansas City, in the US state of Missouri on Wednesday at the conclusion of the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade, police said. "We have confirmed there is one deceased person. Our gunshot wound total has gone up to 22," Kansas City police department chief Stacey Graves said in a news conference after the incident, adding that authorities were still working to determine the total number of victims. According to the fire department, of the 22 people who sustained gunshot wounds, one died, eight were in "immed...
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