Joseph Parker's trainer Kevin Barry. Photo / Dean Purcell.
Kevin Barry has spoken of his shock at the Las Vegas mass shooting which has affected family friends, several of whom have been shot.
New Zealander Barry, the trainer of Kiwi heavyweight boxer and WBO world champion Joseph Parker, has lived with his family in Las Vegas for 14 years.
Barry, a silver medalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, told Radio Sport's Mark Watson that a friend of a friend of his son Taylor had been shot dead and that a good friend of his wife Tanya had been shot in the chest along with her daughter, who had been wounded in an arm.
"My immediate network is safe and sound but when you've got 59 people dead and 527 in hospital injured, you know that you're going to know some people and my wife woke up this morning with a lady friend of hers and her daughter ... were both shot last night - the mother in the chest and the daughter in the arm," Barry told Watson. "Both are alive but they've had a rough time."
Barry travelled back to Las Vegas immediately after Parker's recent victory over Hughie Fury in Manchester while 25-year-old Parker travelled home to Auckland for a break.
