Garlic Festival Shooting: Three Dead in Gilroy California

Mon, Jul 29th 2019, 11:59 AM

Three people have been killed and 15 injured after a gunman attacked a food festival in California.

The gunman was shot dead by police shortly after he began firing, although police are investigating reports that a second suspect may still be at large. The Gilroy Garlic Festival was about to end for the weekend on Sunday evening, when shots were fired at the site.

Six-year-old Stephen Romero is the first of the dead to be identified. His mother and grandmother were wounded. His father, Alberto Romero, told Mercury News that he was at home with his nine-year-old daughter when he got the panicked call from his wife. They had been playing in an inflatable bounce house at the time of the attack, she told him, when the boy was shot in the back.

 

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