Breaking news: During the shooting parade, Patrick Mahomes girlfriend was also affected among the injured persons.

Andy Reid, the head coach who drove the Kansas City Chiefs to victory at the Super Bowl over the weekend, helped console a teenager who appeared distressed after shots rang out near Union Station yesterday, according to a new report in the Kansas City Star.

Gabe Wallace told the newspaper that he heard gunshots — “boom, boom, like real quick” – and then ran for cover. He tried to clamber over a barricade, but his foot got stuck and his face hit the concrete. When he got up, a security guard pointed him inside Union Station. Reid, who had just spoken on a stage outside, saw Wallace and tried to offer solace.

“Andy Reid was trying to comfort me, which was nice,” the high school student told the newspaper, his voice breaking and eyes welling up with tears. “He was kind of hugging me, just like, ‘Are you OK, man? Are you OK? Just please breathe.’ He was being real nice and everything.”

Reid eventually went to go check on other people, said Wallace, who declined an NBC News interview request. Inside the station, he grew increasingly worried that his friends who joined him at the parade had been shot dead. It would be another half hour before Wallace and his friend Hank Hunter reunited outside on what would have been the parade route’s last stop.

1h ago / 7:06 PM WAT
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Witness describes fleeing chaotic scene, climbing fence after hearing ‘popping noises’
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Minyvonne Burke

Janelle Duncan, a longtime Chiefs fan who has attended every Super Bowl victory parade for the team, had to climb over a fence to escape what she described as a chaotic scene.

“We just heard a bunch of popping noises … and people started scurrying around,” Duncan said. “Some people were yelling, ‘Duck,’ and, ‘Run, there’s a shooter!'”

“Someone was yelling that a lady got shot. And then another guy was yelling, ‘Come on you guys, it’s fireworks. False alarm.’ We were just trying to get out of there as quickly as possible, but everybody was running in different directions,” she said in a phone interview.

“Nobody could move more than a few inches at a time,” she continued. “There was a big tall fence and everybody pushed and pushed until they could knock the fence partway down and then we all climbed up it.”

Before shots rang out, Duncan, of Kansas City, said the atmosphere was “completely peaceful.” The 52-year-old, who was at the parade with a friend, said she did not notice anything odd before the shooting.

“It was tons of excitement in the air. Everyone was doing what they could to get a good glimpse of the players and cheer them on as they went by,” she recalled. “It was great yesterday, until that at the end.”

Duncan praised law enforcement for quickly taking the suspects into custody. She also said several fans in the crowd worked together to get people to safety.

“There were moms holding babies that were scared to death so a lot of us were trying to protect them. One in particular, she was trying to hold her little boy’s hand and they kept almost getting separated … so we were trying to hold our arms so she wasn’t getting knocked into,” she said. “People were really being kind and helpful and trying to help people that were more vulnerable.”

2h ago / 6:32 PM WAT
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All victims at Children’s Mercy Hospital expected to recover
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Debra Jones

Children’s Mercy Hospital received 12 patients from the rally, 11 of whom are children ranging from 6 to 15 years old, and nine of the children had been shot, a spokesperson for the Kansas City hospital said.

All the victims are expected to recover, the spokesperson said. Three of them are still being treated at the hospital and all others have been released.

Police had earlier said the age range of the victims began at 8 years old. The reason for the discrepancy between police and the hospital is unclear at this point.

2h ago / 6:07 PM WAT
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Union Station, site of the shooting, staying closed today
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Will Ujek

Representatives for Union Station in downtown Kansas City, the location of yesterday’s deadly shooting, said the building will remain closed today. Only essential staff will be on site.

The tentative plan is to reopen the building tomorrow morning.

2h ago / 6:02 PM WAT
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At least half of the victims are under age 16

Daniel Arkin

The more than 20 people injured during yesterday’s shooting range in age from 8 to 47, and at least half are under the age of 16, Kansas City’s police chief told reporters at this morning’s news conference.

Children’s Mercy Hospital later said the age range for victims began at 6 years old. The reason for the discrepancy between police and the hospital is unclear at this point.

3h ago / 5:44 PM WAT
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Shooting resulted from ‘dispute between several people,’ 2 juveniles in custody

Daniel Arkin

Yesterday’s shooting came amid what “appeared to be a dispute between several people that ended in gunfire,” Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves told reporters today.

Graves said that three people were in custody in connection with the shooting, two of whom are juveniles. Several firearms were recovered, she said.

At least one person is dead and 22 others were injured in the shooting. The police chief said investigators have not found any link to terrorism or homegrown extremism.