Mass for the woman killed during the Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration is attended by hundreds of people.

 

 

Participants leave Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church on Saturday during Lisa Lopez-Galvan’s funeral in Kansas City, Missouri. About two dozen individuals were shot when gunshots broke out outside the city’s Union Station on February 14. Lisa Lopez-Galvan was one of them.

Host of “Taste of Tejano” and known as Lisa G on KKFI-FM, Lisa Lopez-Galvan was shot and killed on Wednesday, February 14, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri, while celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory.

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MORAINE CITY, Kan. Saturday’s funeral mass drew hundreds of mourners for the Kansas City-area DJ who was shot and murdered during a celebration of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory.

About two dozen individuals were shot when gunshots broke out outside the city’s Union Station on February 14. Lisa Lopez-Galvan was one of them. Throughout the ninety-minute service, she was recalled as a devoted mother and wife, whose smile could brighten any space, and who viewed every day as an opportunity for fun and joy.

In addition to hearing a mariachi band perform and sing, mourners—some sporting Chiefs jerseys—gathered in front of the Redemptorist Catholic Church in Kansas City, Missouri, where her coffin was placed.

The 43-year-old attended the march and rally with her husband and young adult son, joining an estimated 1 million spectators. Gunfire broke out as the celebration came to a close due to a disagreement over what the authorities said was the perception that members of one group were looking at members of another group.

Caught in the midst was Lopez-Galvan, a music enthusiast who performed at quinceañeras, weddings, and an American Legion bar and grill. Everyone else made it through.

Two teenagers face firearms charges, and two men are charged in connection with her killing. This Monday, her family released a statement in response to the allegations, thanking the authorities and prosecutors.

The message said, “Even if it doesn’t bring back our dear Lisa, it is comforting.”

Both celebrities and players have been in touch with her family. Pop sensation Taylor Swift, who is dating tight end Travis Kelce and is often seen in the stands at Chiefs games, gave $100,000 to the Lopez-Galvan family.

She was also wearing a Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker jersey to the celebration, so he answered social media posts asking for assistance in finding a comparable jersey, maybe so the mother of two might be buried in it.

Butker stated in a statement, “I will continue to pray for the family’s recovery and Lisa’s soul’s repose while they grieve her death and deal with their many injuries.”

Although Rosa Izurieta and Martha Ramirez had known Lopez-Galvan since childhood, they had only worked with her for a year at a nearby employment company. They recalled her as a bubbly, devout Catholic who loved her family, was enthusiastic about helping job seekers find work, and was always willing to lend a hand.

Furthermore, they noted that, being one of the few Latina DJs in the neighborhood, she was able to express her love by working part-time as a musician.

She co-hosted a show called “Taste of Tejano” on radio station KKFI-FM, which released a statement saying, “This terrible act has removed a beautiful person from her family and this KC community.”

According to Izurieta and Ramirez, Lopez-Galvan has extensive ties to Kansas City. They said that her father started Mariachi Mexico, the city’s first mariachi band, in the 1980s, and that the family is well-known and involved in the Latino community. Beto Lopez, her brother, is the CEO of the Guadalupe Centers, a nonprofit organization that manages charter schools and offers social assistance to the Latino community.

Lopez-Galvan spent years working as a clerk in a police station in the Kansas suburb of Bishop Miege, where she also attended high school as a Catholic with her two children.

Beto Lopez stated last week in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” that “this is another example of a real, loving, real human whose life was taken cruelly by a senseless crime.”