“We cannot let the bastard who did this tear us down,” Gilroy Mayor Roland Velasco told hundreds of people who had gathered to mourn the 3 people killed in Sunday’s rampage.
GILROY, Calif. — Leaders and residents of Gilroy vowed at a community vigil Monday night not to let a gunman and his deadly attack on a garlic festival define their city and its distinctive annual celebration.
“The person who did this took something from us,” Velasco said. “They took a small-town festival that has generated millions of dollars over 41 years, and took that from us.”, died and a dozen more were wounded Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Stephen Romero, 6, Keyla Salazar, 13, and Trevor Irby, who officials said was in his 20s, died in Sunday’s attack, and five of the 12 people wounded remained hospitalized Monday, medical officials said.
Speakers at the vigil memorialized the victims and talked about their experiences during the attack. They prayed, denounced hatred, thanked police and emergency workers, addressed gun politics and read quotes from Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. “We're like the Statue of Liberty, but instead of holding a flame, we're probably holding a head of garlic,” he said.
Kelly Ramirez, a resident who was at the festival during the shooting, said that because of the scale of the episode, everyone in the city now counts as a survivor of gun violence.
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