Funeral held for woman killed all over K.C. parade

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rather a lot of mourners attended a funeral mass Saturday for a Kansas City-house DJ who was killed when she was shot all over a social gathering of the Chiefs‘ Substantial Bowl victory.

Lisa Lopez-Galvan was regarded as one of about two dozen these that had been shot when gunfire erupted Feb. 14 outside town’s Union Station. She was 43.

She was remembered all around the 90-minute provider as a loving partner and mother whose smile would possibly per chance well recall away darkness from a room and who seen daily as a bet for excitement and laughter.

Alongside with her casket finish to the front of the Redemptorist Catholic Church in Kansas City, Missouri, mourners — some wearing Chiefs jerseys — additionally heard a mariachi band play and impart.

Alongside along with her husband and young grownup son, Lopez-Galvan had joined an estimated crowd of 1 million of us for the parade and rally. As the festivities ended, a dispute over what authorities described as the assumption that of us in one neighborhood had been looking at of us in one other neighborhood ended in gunfire.

Lopez-Galvan, a song lover who played at weddings, quinceañeras and an American Legion bar and grill, was caught someday of it. All people else survived.

Two men are charged in her demise, and two juveniles face gun costs. Her family answered to the costs this week with an announcement expressing attributable to police and prosecutors.

“Despite the truth that it does now no longer bring lend a hand our beloved Lisa, it is reassuring,” the assertion began.

Gamers and celebrities non-public reached out to her family. Pop big title Taylor Swift, who is frequently within the stands all over Chiefs video games attributable to she is relationship tight cease Travis Kelce, donated $100,000 to Lopez-Galvan’s family.

And attributable to she was wearing a jersey of Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker at the social gathering, he answered to requests on social media in search of lend a hand in acquiring a linked jersey — maybe so the mummy of two is at possibility of be laid to leisure in it.

“Whereas the family is mourning their loss and grappling with their rather about a injuries, I will proceed to hope for their healing and the repose of Lisa’s soul,” Butker mentioned in an announcement.

Rosa Izurieta and Martha Ramirez labored with Lopez-Galvan for about a 365 days at a local staffing firm nonetheless had recognized her since childhood. They remembered her as an extrovert and a staunch Catholic who was devoted to her family, connecting job seekers with employment and willing to lend a hand anybody.

And, they mentioned, working share time taking part in song allowed her to share her passion as regarded as one of many house’s few Latina DJs.

“This mindless act has taken an lovely particular person from her family and this KC Community,” the radio space KKFI-FM, where she was the co-host of a program referred to as “Taste of Tejano,” mentioned in an announcement.

Izurieta and Ramirez mentioned Lopez-Galvan’s Kansas City roots whisk deep. Her father based mostly town’s first mariachi neighborhood, Mariachi Mexico, within the 1980s, they mentioned, and the family is successfully recognized and energetic within the Latino neighborhood. Her brother, Beto Lopez, is CEO of the Guadalupe Centers, which provides neighborhood services and products and runs charter faculties for the Latino neighborhood.

Lopez-Galvan and her two formative years went to Bishop Miege, a Catholic excessive faculty in a suburb on the Kansas aspect, and she labored for years as a clerk in a police division there.

“Here’s one other instance of a staunch loving, staunch human whose existence was taken tragically with a mindless act,” Beto Lopez mentioned in an interview final week on ABC’s “Staunch Morning The USA.”