3 Missouri men face federal weapons charges related to firearms found at Chiefs parade shooting

Former NYPD officer Paul Mauro reacts to reports shots were fired near the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl parade on 'The Story with Martha MacCallum.'

Three men are facing federal charges for illegally purchasing and trafficking multiple guns that were found at the scene where gunmen opened fire during a Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory celebration packed with fans caught intoe crossfire, prosecutors said Wednesday. 

Fedo Antonia Manning, 22; Ronnel Dewayne Williams Jr., 21; and Chaelyn Hendrick Groves, 19, were charged in a separate four-count federal criminal complaint on Wednesday. 

None of the three men are accused of firing or using the weapons recovered outside Kansas City's Union Station following the Feb. 14 shooting that killed one woman and injured at least nearly two dozen other people. 

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Emergency personnel, left, take a stretcher into Union Station following a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs NFL football Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 14, 2024.  (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)

"These cases underscore the importance of enforcing federal firearms laws," said U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore. "Stopping straw buyers and preventing illegal firearms trafficking is our first line of defense against gun violence. At least two of the firearms recovered from the scene of the mass shooting at Union Station were illegally purchased or trafficked."

The shooting killed Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a mother of two and beloved disc jockey in Kansas City. Roughly half of those wounded by gunfire were under the age of 16.

Manning faces a 12-count criminal complaint accusing him of one count each of conspiracy to