February 11, 2024 — Kansas City Chiefs 25, San Francisco 49ers 22 (OT), at Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada, before 61,629.1 Patrick Mahomes earned his third Super Bowl MVP award; Mecole Hardman caught the game-winning three-yard touchdown pass in overtime.12 The Chiefs’ third championship in five seasons made them the NFL’s ninth repeat Super Bowl champion and the first back-to-back winner in nineteen years.2 Three days later, the victory rally at Union Station ended in a mass shooting — the February 14, 2024 Chiefs parade shooting.

The game

Super Bowl LVIII was the NFL’s first Super Bowl in Las Vegas. It was also the second of 58 Super Bowls to be tied after regulation, and the first played under the overtime rules ensuring both teams get a possession.2 The Chiefs won the opening coin toss and deferred; the 49ers won the overtime toss.1

San Francisco led 10-3 at halftime. Scoring by quarter:1

TeamQ1Q2Q3Q4OTFinal
San Francisco 49ers01009322
Kansas City Chiefs03106625

Scoring summary:1

  • Q2 14:48 — Jake Moody 55-yard field goal (SF 3-0)
  • Q2 4:23 — Christian McCaffrey 21-yard touchdown pass from wide receiver Jauan Jennings, Moody kick (SF 10-0)
  • Q2 0:20 — Harrison Butker 28-yard field goal (SF 10-3)
  • Q3 5:01 — Butker 57-yard field goal (SF 10-6)
  • Q3 2:28 — Marquez Valdes-Scantling 16-yard touchdown pass from Patrick Mahomes, Butker kick (KC 13-10)
  • Q4 11:22 — Jauan Jennings 10-yard touchdown pass from Brock Purdy, Moody kick failed (SF 16-13)
  • Q4 5:46 — Butker 24-yard field goal (16-16)
  • Q4 1:53 — Moody 53-yard field goal (SF 19-16)
  • Q4 0:03 — Butker 29-yard field goal (19-19, end of regulation)
  • OT 7:22 — Moody 27-yard field goal (SF 22-19)
  • OT 0:03 — Mecole Hardman 3-yard touchdown pass from Mahomes (KC 25-22, final)

San Francisco took the ball first in overtime and settled for Moody’s 27-yard field goal. Kansas City answered with a 13-play, 75-yard drive that consumed 7:19, starting at its own 25.1 Mahomes ran 8 yards on fourth-and-1 to keep the drive alive, then scrambled 19 yards to set up the winning score, which came 14:57 into the extra period — just before what would have been a second overtime.2 On the final snap he found a wide-open Mecole Hardman for three yards.

Hardman said afterward he did not remember the moment: “I kinda don’t remember it in a sense, I kind of blacked out, for real.”3

Mahomes finished 34-of-46 for 333 yards with two passing touchdowns and one interception, plus 9 carries for 66 rushing yards, and was sacked three times.1 Kansas City out-gained San Francisco 455 yards to 382 and converted 9 of 19 third downs to the 49ers’ 3 of 12.1 The game lasted 4 hours 6 minutes; Bill Vinovich was the referee.1

The rally and shooting

Kansas City celebrated with a downtown victory parade and rally on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 — Valentine’s Day. Police put the crowd at an estimated one million people, with more than 800 members of law enforcement on the ground.4

The rally at Union Station began at 12:52 p.m. and ran about an hour, ending with a final burst of confetti at 1:48 p.m.5 Court documents later filed in the case state that police began responding to reports of shots fired at 1:49 p.m., near West Pershing and Kessler Roads, west of Union Station near the parking garage.56 At 2:09 p.m. the Kansas City Police Department notified media that “at the conclusion of the rally, there were shots fired west of Union Station near the garage and several people were struck.”5

One person was killed. Casualty counts as reported that week:

  • Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said at least 22 people were wounded.7
  • Interim Kansas City Fire Chief Ross Grundyson reported 22 gunshot victims — one fatality, eight with immediately life-threatening injuries, seven with life-threatening injuries, and six with minor injuries.67
  • Children’s Mercy Hospital said it was treating 11 children ranging in age from 6 to 15, nine of them with gunshot wounds; none were in critical condition and all were expected to recover.7
  • PBS NewsHour reported “at least eight children were among the wounded.”4

⚠ These figures were reported at different moments and count different things — gunshot victims including or excluding the fatality, and children treated versus children shot. This page records them as reported rather than reconciling them. An earlier draft of this page stated flatly that “twenty-two others were wounded, eleven of them children”; the “eleven” figure describes children treated at Children’s Mercy, of whom nine had gunshot wounds.

The person killed was Lisa Lopez-Galvan (legal name Elizabeth Lopez-Galvan), 43, a mother of two and a DJ at community radio station KKFI 90.1 FM, where she hosted the weekly Tejano music program Taste of Tejano. KKFI announced her death on Facebook the evening of the shooting: “It is with sincere sadness and an extremely heavy and broken heart that we let our community know that KKFI DJ Lisa Lopez-Galvan, host of Taste of Tejano lost her life today in the shooting at the KC Chiefs’ rally.”647

Chief Graves said the following day that the shooting appeared to stem from a dispute between several people and that the investigation had found no nexus to terrorism or homegrown violent extremism.74 Three people were detained on the day of the shooting, two of them juveniles.76 Charges were subsequently filed. This page names no individual charged in the case.

Mayor Quinton Lucas, who attended the rally, said: “I’m heartbroken. I don’t want us to have to, in our country, for every big event, think about a concern of being shot.”7

Full documentation of the shooting, its victims, and its aftermath is on the companion page: 2024 Chiefs Parade Shooting.

Legacy

Back-to-back

Super Bowl LVIII completed consecutive championships for the Chiefs, who won Super Bowls LIV (2020), LVII (2023), and LVIII (2024) — three titles in five years. They became the NFL’s ninth repeat Super Bowl champion and the first back-to-back winner in 19 years; the previous repeat was New England following the 2003 and 2004 seasons.2

Andy Reid

Head coach Andy Reid earned his third Super Bowl ring with the Chiefs. AP framed Reid and Mahomes as “halfway to Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, who won six championships in 20 years together with the New England Patriots.”2

Mahomes at the summit

At 28 years old, Patrick Mahomes became the fourth starting quarterback to win three Super Bowls — joining Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw, and Troy Aikman — and the second-youngest to do so. It was his third Super Bowl MVP award.2

Mahomes was already talking about the next one: “I am going to do whatever I can to be back in this game next year. Three-peat.”2

Civic shadow

The championship and the shooting three days later occupy the same fortnight in Kansas City’s 2024 record. For that reason the two events carry companion pages in this archive.

See also

arrowhead-stadium · 2020-chiefs-super-bowl-liv · 2023-chiefs-super-bowl-lvii · 2024-chiefs-parade-shooting · kansas-city-chiefs · patrick-mahomes · andy-reid · The KS.City Wiki

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Pro-Football-Reference — box score, Super Bowl LVIII: San Francisco 49ers at Kansas City Chiefs, February 11, 2024 — asserts: final Chiefs 25, 49ers 22; line score SF 0-10-0-9-3, KC 0-3-10-6-6; Allegiant Stadium, dome, grass; attendance 61,629; duration 4:06; Chiefs won the toss and deferred, 49ers won the OT toss; Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes; referee Bill Vinovich; Vegas line SF -2.0. Full scoring summary: Moody 55-yd FG; McCaffrey 21-yd TD pass from Jauan Jennings (Moody kick); Butker 28-yd FG; Butker 57-yd FG; Valdes-Scantling 16-yd TD pass from Mahomes (Butker kick); Jennings 10-yd TD pass from Purdy (Moody kick failed); Butker 24-yd FG; Moody 53-yd FG; Butker 29-yd FG; Moody 27-yd FG (OT 7:22); Hardman 3-yd TD pass from Mahomes (OT 0:03). Player lines: Mahomes 34/46, 333 yds, 2 TD, 1 INT, sacked 3 for 8; rushing 9 att, 66 yds, long 22; Purdy 23/38, 255 yds, 1 TD; McCaffrey 22 rush/80 yds, 8 rec/80 yds, 1 TD, 1 fumble lost. Team stats: total yards KC 455, SF 382; third downs KC 9-19, SF 3-12; fourth downs 1-1 each. Drive log records the winning overtime drive as 13 plays, 75 yards, 7:19, starting at KAN 25. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. ESPN / Associated Press — “Patrick Mahomes rallies the Chiefs to second straight Super Bowl title, 25-22 over 49ers in overtime” (February 12, 2024) — asserts: the Chiefs became the first back-to-back Super Bowl champions in 19 years and the NFL’s ninth repeat Super Bowl champs, capturing their third title in five years; the NFL’s first Super Bowl in Las Vegas; it was the second of 58 Super Bowls to be tied after regulation and the first played under the new overtime rules ensuring both teams got the ball; the Chiefs trailed 22-19 after Jake Moody’s 27-yard overtime field goal; Mahomes ran 8 yards on fourth-and-1 and scrambled 19 yards to set up the winning score, which came 14:57 into the extra period, just before what would have been a second OT; Mahomes earned his third Super Bowl MVP; New England was the most recent team to go back-to-back, following the 2003-04 seasons, and Reid and Mahomes are “halfway to Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, who won six championships in 20 years”; the 28-year-old Mahomes became the fourth starting QB to win three Super Bowls — joining Brady, Montana, Bradshaw, and Aikman — and the second-youngest; Mahomes: “I am going to do whatever I can to be back in this game next year. Three-peat.” ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  3. NFL.com — “Chiefs WR Mecole Hardman on game-winning TD: ‘I’m trying to figure out what’s bigger than a walk-off in the Super Bowl’” (published February 13, 2024) — asserts: Hardman on the game-winning catch, “I kinda don’t remember it in a sense, I kind of blacked out, for real.” ↩

  4. PBS NewsHour — “What we know about the shooting near Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade” (February 2024) — asserts: a mother of two was killed and more than 20 people injured at the tail end of the parade on Wednesday, with at least eight children among the wounded; police say the shooting resulted from a dispute among several people and happened outside Union Station, where an estimated 1 million people had gathered, with more than 800 members of law enforcement already on the ground; Chief Stacey Graves confirmed the shooting had no “nexus to terrorism” or homegrown violent extremism; Elizabeth Galvan, 43, was identified by police as the person killed — a mother of two and a local DJ at KKFI who co-hosted Taste of Tejano; a GoFundMe for her two children and her husband of 22 years drew thousands of donations, including $100,000 from Taylor Swift; Graves said police had confiscated several guns but would not confirm the types. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. KSHB 41 — “Celebrations, confetti, then deadly chaos: Remembering 2024 Chiefs Super Bowl rally 1 year later” (2025-02-10) — asserts: minute-by-minute timeline of Wednesday, February 14, 2024 — the team arrived at Union Station shortly before 1 p.m.; Chiefs radio voice Mitch Holthus opened the show at 12:52 p.m.; speeches by Gov. Mike Parson, Mayor Quinton Lucas, Chiefs executives and players, including Chris Jones’s three-peat declaration; the rally lasted roughly an hour, ending with a final burst of confetti at 1:48 p.m.; gunfire erupted not long after when a confrontation between multiple parties escalated, near West Pershing and Kessler Roads; court documents filed in support of charges state police began responding to reports of shots fired at 1:49 p.m.; some victims were shot and others trampled; at 2:09 p.m. KCPD emailed media confirming shots fired west of Union Station near the garage with several people struck and two armed people detained; officials held a press conference at 3:44 p.m. with Lucas, Graves, and Grundyson. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. KCUR 89.3 — “Shooting at Kansas City Chiefs victory parade kills 1 person, injures multiple people” (2024-02-14) — asserts: shots were fired at the end of the Chiefs’ 2024 Super Bowl rally, west of Union Station near the garage, per initial police reports; three people had been detained by Wednesday afternoon, two quickly and a third based on video footage, per Chief Stacey Graves; KCFD Interim Chief Ross Grundyson reported 22 gunshot victims: one fatality, eight with “immediately life-threatening” injuries, seven with life-threatening injuries, and six with minor injuries; on Wednesday evening the death of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a local radio DJ and mother of two, was confirmed by community radio station KKFI 90.1, where she hosted the weekly program Taste of Tejano; full text of KKFI’s statement. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  7. CBS News — “Shooting after Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade kills 1 near Union Station; at least 22 wounded” (February 2024) — asserts: at least one person was killed and multiple people including young children and teens wounded in a shooting near Union Station at the conclusion of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade on Wednesday; three people, including two juveniles, were detained; Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said the gunfire appeared to stem from a dispute between several people and that the investigation found no connections to terrorism or homegrown violent extremism; Graves said at least 22 people were wounded; Fire Chief Ross Grundyson said eight were in critical condition, seven serious, six minor; Children’s Mercy Hospital said 11 children aged 6 to 15 were being treated and nine of them had gunshot wounds, none critical, all expected to recover; the shooting happened west of Union Station; all Chiefs players, coaches and staff were accounted for; KKFI identified the victim as its DJ Lisa Lopez-Galvan, host of Taste of Tejano; Mayor Quinton Lucas: “I’m heartbroken. I don’t want us to have to, in our country, for every big event, think about a concern of being shot.” ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

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