Kansas City, Mo. (AP) – A man from Kansas who was wrongly accused of being the shooters who opened the fire during a meeting in honor of the Super Bowl victory of the Kansas City Chiefs died last year, his lawyer said.
Denton Loudermill Jr., Van Olathe, was briefly fascinated, but was never charged in the chaos that followed the fatal shooting. He later submitted lawsuits against three Republican senators of the state of Missouri and a congressman in Tennessee who shared social media posts who had wrongly involved him.
Those things were all rejected, largely on jurisdictic issues.
Laronna Lassiter Saunders lawyer confirmed Loudermill's death in a statement on Friday, but did not give any details about the circumstances. Loudermill was 49.
“More details will be provided on time, but for now we ask that you honor the needs of the family to privacy if they come together to mourn this enormous loss,” she wrote.
February 14, 2024, shoot outside Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, killed a well -known DJ and injured more than 20 others, many of them children.
The lawsuits of Loudermill said that he froze when the rifle fire broke out and for so long stood in the middle of the chaos that the police finally started to walk away. As he tried to leave, officers held him and told him that he moved 'too slowly'. They fascinate him and put him on a curb, where people started taking pictures and placing them on social media, the lawsuits said.
Loudermill was eventually led away and said he was free to go. But soon messages began to appear on X with a photo of Loudermill, a car wash employee who was born and raised in the US, the posts called him an “illegal alien” and a “shooter”, although he had no involvement, the lawsuits said.
Three men were eventually accused of murder, and several other people were confronted with other charges arising from the shootings, the authorities said it came from a dispute between two groups of people.
Weliter Saunders said she would continue to fight to erase Loudermill's name.
“While the family is taking this time to mourn, we want to make it clear that this is not over yet. Mr. Loudermill should not have spent his last days with stress and the pursuit of a lie that became viral because of the carefree and heartless actions of a congress member, missouri senators and social media, who could not be verified.
“If you thought we were determined earlier, you've not seen anything yet!” She concluded.
