Black KC Chiefs Fan in Viral Pictures Had Nothing To Do With Mass Shooting, But Now His Life’s Been Ruined

Denton Loudermill, a Kansas City Chiefs fan cuffed during last week’s mass shooting and mistakenly identified in social media rumors as the shooter, seeks to clear his name. Image from Getty Many may be familiar with this picture of a man in a red jumpsuit at the super bowl parade last week. Mass news outlets and social media posts that reached over 25 million people, led to the belief that he was one of the shooters in last week’s tragedy.  Yet, this is far from the truth.& Denton Loudermill, a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs from Olathe, and father of 3, found himself in an unfortunate situation when he was handcuffed during the chaos following the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City. Initially, images of Loudermill in cuffs led to rampant online speculation about his involvement in the parade violence. One viral Twitter post claimed “at least one of the Kansas City Chiefs parade shooters identified as Sahil Omar, a 44 year old illegal immigrant. Biden has failed to protect America from invasion and terrorism,” said a February 15, 2024 post on Twitter blaming US President Joe Biden over the US-Mexico border as the cause for the parade shooting....