Her mom was killed at Chiefs rally. Teen picks up the DJ mic to 'keep her legacy going'

And his.

“To tell the truth,” he said, “I think they’re doing better than I am.”

Together for 24 years, married for 22, Galvan was next to his wife at Union Station.

“It sounded like firecrackers,” he said. “I thought someone threw some Black Cats, you know? That’s how it sounded.”

They saw nothing. The Chiefs rally had ended.

“It was over. We were all walking together and shots rang out.”

He saw his wife and son hit the ground. He had no idea anyone was injured. He thought they went down because they had heard the shots. Lisa lay there.

“I immediately got on top of her, because I didn’t want her to get shot,” Galvan said.

“I said, ‘Honey are you OK?’” Galvan said, his voice cracked with emotion. “She shook her head, ‘no.’”

Galvan turned his wife to her back. He saw the wound in her stomach, maybe one in her chest. A woman ran to help. She began CPR. Lisa was carried to a nearby tent. “I went with her, but they ran me off,” Galvan said.

He and Adriana waited outside, still unsure of her condition.

“We stayed outside waiting for them to tell us something. Nobody seemed to know nothing,” he said, and he appealed to the medics. “‘I know where she’s at, which bed she’s in. Let me just peek in there. If she’s there, or if she’s in the hospital, I don’t know, because they were taking them from the back end of the tent.”

His sister-in-law soon called him to say that Marc had been taken to University Health, formerly Truman Medical Center, and perhaps Lisa was there, too. He and Adriana began to leave. Police stopped them to say that they needed to give statements, which they had already given.

“I said, ‘You guys don’t tell me nothing. My son’s probably fighting for his life and my wife, if she’s at the hospital, I want to be with her. They were trying to stop me. I said, ‘Don’t even get in front of me. It’ll be a bad thing.’”

Lisa Lopez-Galvan and ‘a particular song’

Police backed off, he said. The crush of people and massive police presence would make driving too slow. They walked to the hospital and located Marc’s room. But before Galvan entered, he said he was told that a doctor wanted to speak to him.

The doctor started by saying that Marc had two bullet wounds in his left leg, but that he would be OK. One had passed through the flesh, the other was lodged in his left calf, where it would eventually work itself toward the surface and would be extracted. Weeks later it was.

The second piece of news was unexpected, and horrific.

“About your wife,” Galvan recalled the doctor saying. “She was pronounced dead at the scene.”

Adriana was in the waiting room. When he told his daughter — Mom didn’t make it — “she went crazy,” he said.

“I told her, ‘You’ve got to be strong, because Marc doesn’t know. We’ve got to go in there and tell him.’ Went in there and the first thing out of his mouth is, ‘How’s mom?’…

“It was the hardest thing I ever had to do.”

In anguish, Marc began tearing the tubing from his arms. He was released from the hospital that night.

“I said, ‘It’s going to be us three now,’” Galvan said. “‘We’ve got to take care of each other.’” As they left the hospital, he said, scores of people were waiting for word on Lisa.

“They didn’t know.”

Nor did her parents, Galvan’s father-in-law and mother-in-law. He drove to their home.

“‘Where’s Lisa?’” he recalled his father-in-law saying. “I said, ‘That was her on TV. She didn’t make it.’ He said, ‘What?! That’s my baby.’”

During her gigs, Lisa Lopez-Galvan often sang along to the songs she played, including one in particular, “Ya Te Vi” (“I’ve Seen You”) by Elsa Garcia. It is a fun and smiling tune, the sort — with sharp drums, guitar and a buoyant accordion — that Adriana’s mother loved.

In her garage, Adriana put on the song. “I feel like every time I listen to it, she’s with me,“ Adriana said.

“You know, I mean, we did everything together,” Galvan said. “It just seems like I’m lost. I’m pissed off. All kinds of emotions, up and down. You’re good for one minute, and then a particular song comes on …”

Like her mother, Adriana began to sing.