Crisis Actor Jacob Gooch - Kansas City Superbowl Fake Mass Shooting

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We are once again, here we go, struggling to make sense of a mass senseless shooting in this country. This time, it happened that the Kansas City Chief Super Bowl Parade, it was a family event, meant to be a celebration. As you know, by now, when it was all over, one person was dead, and more than 20 others were wounded, including the man we are speaking with now, his name is Jacob Gooch Sr., his wife and his son were also shot. Jacob Gooch, thank you for joining us. I see you there in your Kansas City Chiefs sweatshirt. I was thinking about all the people there. Yeah, good morning. Thank you. So I'm very sorry that this has happened to your family in the people of Kansas City. I worked in that city. I know this city very well. And I'm curious about how you were processing all of this this morning. I haven't even begun to process this morning. I mean, it's just crazy. I'm, you know, we're all still in shock right now. Yeah. Not understanding what even happened for her. But I've got to get back to the hospital. Mr. Gooch, where were you all? Did you see the shooter? Did you see what exactly happened? I personally did not see the shooter. I heard the altercation of the girl who, some girl who said like, don't do it. Not here. This is stupid or something like that. Oh, wow. And then the gunshots, which at the time I thought where fire works, but, you know, turned out. Wow, it's not me. If you were close enough to hear somebody say, presumably, to the shooter, don't do this. This is stupid. I mean, what was the sound of the gunfire like? And also, where were your family struck? Where were you in your 13 year old hit? My wife and daughter saw the gun come out and start shooting. They said they saw it. We said where was I hit? Yeah, but tell us about them seeing it. That's incredibly close. She, my daughter said that some lady was like holding them back and people had started backing up. And then he pulled it out and just started shooting them, spinning in a circle. So what they said, where are your wife and children now, Mr. Gooch? My wife is sitting right next to me. And my daughter is in bed. My kids are in bed. So what kind of wounds have they sustained? My daughter or, you know, no, my daughter, my daughter didn't get shot. My son got shot. And my wife got shot. She got shot in her calf. It went straight through. So she's fine. My son is left with a bullet in his foot. And I got shot directly in the ankle and broke a couple of metatarsal bones in the foot. You know, this is supposed to be a time of celebration for your family and for the city. When you were going to the parade, did you have any concerns at all? We know security was extremely tight. Did you see anything suspicious? Did you have any concerns when you were going and when you were there? I mean, when I was there, I mean, not when I was going or anything. I didn't. I thought, I actually actually talked about it. And I'm like, you know, it's just a bunch of happy people. Nothing's going to happen. And, you know, about 15 minutes before it actually did happen. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I got suspicious of a certain group of people that were there. We were standing on the side that we were standing on, that were the left side of the stage where the shooting ended up happening. And I beg for it ended up happening. There was this group dressed in all black about four or five, six kids looked like kids with black on, black masks. And they disappeared into the crowd. And then the show ended. And as soon as we started walking out, it happened. And I wasn't a good witness. I didn't see anything I got. Mr. Goode, I mean, in a sea of people wearing those red Kansas City chief jerseys, this group must have stood out. I mean, as a person from Missouri from Kansas City, what do you, what's your read on people in all black with masks? Is that a gang situation? Is that some other kind of thing? Are those local people? Not a clue. I actually live in Leavenworth, Kansas, but I mean, I had a feeling that's, I don't know that there even ones that did it, but I did have a feeling to answer the question. Well, we're glad that you and your family are right. You know, one family is waking up. They've lost their everything this morning. The Galvan family were thinking about them today. And all the others who have been injured. Yeah. Jacob Goode, thank you very much. I'm gonna thank you. I love you four days a week. The most foreign family is going to be here tonight. Thanks, I was so I was looking forward to your answer. I'll see you tomorrow night for Lea when you're需要 on Salt Troop aboard saces. I'm.." with you guys today." Carl Cleenyear Do you want me to try and kick this off? Not here to try that off. Hey, guys John, I didn't remember what I said to. So you said there were into special amounts in her leg and it went straight through on the bottom right side of her calf. Can you kind of recount what you saw and heard right before the shooting? We're walking out. There was this lady pushing this guy's group of people back sort of the left of us saying, you know, not now this isn't the place or something like that. And then Sal was right before pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop off the gunshot started going off. So first I'm thinking it's fireworks. So as the pop and started happening, I'm looking at the ground for the fireworks. And, you know, I can remember feeling just dirt flying up at me and then, you know, people are rushing me all at the same time. And I felt the hit and thinking that it was fireworks. I looked down. You know, I saw smoke coming out of my ankle. Man, I mean, that video you guys just showed on that clip. I hadn't seen that. And yeah, okay, where this is shown right here. I'm at the very front where this circle is spreading out. And I'm pretty sure this is me on the ground right here in the very front of the median. I see. Golly. Yeah, this is, yeah, this is Holy smokes. This is so crazy seeing this. It's so blurry. But I'm pretty, yeah, I'm pretty sure this is me right here. Apparently her and my daughter saw it happen. Like they said they saw him pull out the gun and went out and spin a circle or a semi circle firing the weapon off. Can you, I don't know if they did. Can you describe the shooter to us, the age? Not at all. I didn't say, you know, when I heard the pops, I looked down for fireworks. So I did not, because I didn't think it was a gun at first. And then, you know, before it looked enough to see after getting it to see where it came from, I turned and get away. Did your wife and daughter describe how he had concealed the weapon? Was it in a coat? From what I remember them telling me was I don't know anything about a coat. But she said a white shirt, black pants, and pulling it out is all I know. I don't know, pulling it from where it was banned or checked. I don't know. Did they tell you was this a young person? Because that's what we had been hearing that these were young people who did this. From her recollection, seeing the guy, she thinks he was a middle aged guy. Peppy set middle aged guy.