Bellevue man praised for tackling KC gunman

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WOWT) - A man from Bellevue is being praised for helping tackle one of the alleged gunmen at the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City Wednesday.

Witnesses described seeing several fans of the Kansas City chiefs chasing after a gunman and tackling him to the ground after the shots rang out. By late Wednesday, police confirmed that one person died and more than 20 others were wounded.

One person was heard saying, “When we tackled him, the gun come out”. An officer was then heard saying, “Hey, I got the gun.”

Police haver not confirmed the person was among the three people detained in connection to the shooting.

In an interview later, Paul Contreras described tackling the man. He said, “I just heard somebody yelling to stop this guy tackle him and he was coming in the opposite direction. So I just, you don’t think about it. It’s just a reaction. He got close to me. I got the right angle on him and I hit him from behind and when I hit him from behind, I either jarred the gun out of his hand or out of his sleeve because as I’m taking him down to the ground, I see the gun on the ground. So I take him down and I’m putting all, all my body weight on him and then another good Samaritan comes over and is helping me because I kind of got him high and the other guy gets him around his waist and we’re just putting our weight on him and he’s just fighting to get up, but we’re, we’re fighting to keep him down.”

His daughter Alyssa Marsh-Contreras, shot video from the scene of the shooting. It shows police detaining a man near the victory rally.