“Mass gun violence is an epidemic in the United States and yet one never imagines that such a thing could happen here in our beautiful community,” Gilroy Mayor Roland Velasco said.
identified the third victimThe officers began shooting at the gunman in less than a minute, Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said, “despite the fact that they were outgunned, with their handguns, against a rifle.”
The owner of Big Mikes Gun & Ammo, where the shooter bought the gun, posted on its Facebook page Monday to express anger over what happened in Gilroy, noting the business sells guns to people it believes are “upstanding citizens to promote safe sport shooting.” Legan’s grandfather Thomas Legan was a Santa Clara County supervisor before his death last year, according to his obituary.In the hours before the shooting, Legan appeared to have posted a photo on his Instagram profile, which has since been deleted, of what appeared to be the Gilroy Garlic Festival with the caption: “Ayyy garlic festival time come get wasted on overpriced ....”
Kawika Palacios, 29, said his parents saw police searching a home linked to the man suspected of opening fire Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. In this town of garlic pickers and Silicon Valley commuters, the festival “is the one thing Gilroy has going,” Sanchez said. Mendoza believed they were just making sure the neighborhood was safe — he often runs in the park where the festival is held, just a 30-minute jog from his home. It wasn’t until this morning, when reporters asked Mendoza what he knew of his neighbors, that he realized the shooter might have lived on his street.
Smithee said late Sunday that witnesses reported a second man was somehow involved. But officials are “no closer” to determining whether there was a second person, and if so, what kind of involvement the person had, Smithee said. Officials also haven’t determined why the gunman began shooting. Taylor Pellegrini, 25, said she was sitting on a bench near the food court at the festival with her boyfriend and two friends when she heard the sound of firecrackers. When the pops continued and people started running, she realized they were in danger.
The shots felt close to where they were sitting at the front of the stage. Her group started running too, finding refuge in a shipping container where many other festival-goers were hiding.Christian Swain, a singer for TinMan, said the band’s guitarist, Jack van Breen,. After those first shots, Van Breen stopped playing. Swain said his bandmate “saw the guy start messing with his gun — his clip or something.
F amily members of 6-year-old Stephen Romero said he was fatally wounded in the attack. The boy’s mother and grandmother, who were also at the festival, were injured. Gilroy Mayor Roland Velasco described the shooting as “a tragedy that a very long night cannot erase.” Inside 5th Street Coffee Roasting Co., Yolanda Castaneda, who has lived in Gilroy for 25 years, was busy tending to customers. She said the morning mostly started out busy serving reporters and others visitors she’s not use to seeing in her shop. She said it’s been difficult to get back to a regular routine.
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