Mass Shooting Tears Apart Garlic Festival In Gilroy, California

By Tom Knighton

The Gilroy, California Garlic Festival was ripped apart Sunday evening after gunfire erupted. The result was yet another mass shooting.

As of this writing, information is still limited, but here’s what’s currently being reported:

Four people including a suspect are dead and 15 others wounded after at least one gunman opened fire Sunday evening during the Gilroy Garlic Festival, authorities said. Hundreds of people were sent scrambling for safety, CBS San Francisco reports.

The dead include six-year-old Stephen Luciano Romero, of San Jose, authorities said.

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee told reporters in a late-night briefing that Gilroy officers engaged a suspect within a minute of shots ringing out and killed him.

Smithee said witnesses told authorities at least one other person may have been involved in the shooting but there was no confirmation of that or the role he or she might have played. He said a search was underway for the possible accomplice.

Federal law enforcement sources told CBS News the FBI was among numerous law enforcement agencies at the scene assisting Gilroy police, who were leading the investigation.

Smithee said the suspect or suspects appeared to have cut through a wire fence at a creek bordering the festival grounds …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms