A 28-year-old man is in police custody after two folks have been shot on the Philadelphia Eagles Tremendous Bowl parade.
CBS News reported Brandon Ramos was arrested after firing a gun and injuring two girls on Friday, February 14, on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. One of many girls had reportedly lower in line at a restroom earlier than Ramos pulled the set off. Ramos was charged with aggravated assault, possessing an instrument of crime, easy assault and recklessly endangering one other individual.
Each girls have been transferred to the Penn Presbyterian Medical Heart and are at the moment steady.
The capturing occurred because the Eagles and followers within the metropolis celebrated the crew’s win over the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at Tremendous Bowl LIX on Sunday, February 9. The Chiefs had previously announced they might not maintain a public celebration in the event that they received the sport. In 2024, one individual was killed and 24 have been injured after a mass capturing close to the Chiefs’ parade route following their win over the San Francisco 49ers.
Philadelphia faculties have been closed on Friday so youngsters and their households might attend the parade. Per a video taken by 94WIP host Eliot Shorr-Parks, the parade formally started at 11 a.m. ET, although followers had totally crowded the parade route earlier than 7 a.m. Earlier than issues kicked off some followers roasted a pig meant to resemble Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts was among the many first to indicate up for the Valentine’s Day parade, joined by his fiancée Bry Burrows and carrying a shirt that learn, “Love, Hurts.”
In the meantime, Eagles security C.J. Gardner-Johnson surprised fans together with his personal sweatshirt, which learn “Swifties Can LIX My Balls” — a reference to Tremendous Bowl LIX in addition to Taylor Swift, who’s courting Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce.
Loads of folks had one thing to say in response to Gardner-Johnson’s shirt on social media. One individual wrote, “Think about reaching the head of your profession, profitable the Tremendous Bowl, and as a substitute of appearing like a champ, you’re out right here fixated on Kelce’s ex and now Swift. Pathetic. You’ve acquired a hoop, however clearly no dignity. Keep bitter, I suppose.”
Gardner-Johnson sparked a struggle with Swift’s followers quickly after the Tremendous Bowl when he shared a photograph of himself taunting Kelce on social media. “Ought to’ve Stayed with that thick s—,” Gardner-Johnson wrote, apparently referencing Kelce’s ex-girlfriend Kayla Nicole, who broke up with the tight finish in 2022 — at the very least one 12 months earlier than he and Swift started courting.
“I didn’t say that I didn’t need them to win. I’ve the Chiefs profitable. They’re going to win. It’s going to be a three-peat. Patrick Mahomes goes to get the job finished. I by no means, by no means guess towards Patty Mahomes, interval,” Nicole exclusively told Us Weekly earlier than the Tremendous Bowl on February 6.
“I bear in mind particularly when the Patriots have been profitable 12 months after 12 months, I mentioned the identical factor,” she mentioned on the time. “When the Celtics have been doing it. Mentioned the identical factor. It simply occurs. I’m able to see historical past be made.”