GILROY, CA — Police have responded to an “active shooter” situation after at least one gunman opened fire on attendees at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Christmas Hill Park.
Gilroy police tweeted Sunday evening that the “hearts” of the police department and the entire community go out to the victims at the shooting. The scene is still active, police said, and anyone looking for loved ones was asked to go to the reunification center at Gavilan College in parking lot B. The tweet was accompanied by the hashtag “#GilroyActiveshooter.”
A Gilroy police dispatcher wouldn’t immediately confirm to Patch whether there was a shooting Sunday night, saying only “we are extremely busy.” A dispatcher told KTLA-TV that police were responding to an “active shooter” around 5:30 p.m. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also tweeted it was responding to the shooting.
Law enforcement sources told KTVU-TV one shooter is dead and a second was “outstanding.”
Video posted on social media showed people running away from the festival as at least one gunshot rings out. In a second video, a half-dozen shots can be heard as people scream and run.Witness Julissa Contreras told NBC Bay Area a rifle-toting white man in his 30s fired three to four shots a second.
“It was just rapid firing,” she said. “I could see him shooting in just every direction. He wasn’t aiming at anyone specifically. It was just left to right, right to left. …
“He definitely was prepared for what he was doing,” she said.
Santa Clara County Medical Center told NBC News it was treating two patients and expecting at least three more.
The three-day festival has been running since 1979, according to the event’s website. It features “garlicky food, live entertainment, and family fun.” The event was to run until 6 p.m. Sunday.
CCP. It’s the active shooter fly swatter.
Trump’s fault. Garlic is racist, etc.
If it’s an illegal alien, then you’ll hear nothing more about this.
Shoot back, oh nevermind, it’s California.
Hey, Mr./Mrs. California, I believe it is paramount for those with the wherewithal to provide for their own defense, which you are not, according to state law.
Wouldn’t it be a little more comforting to be able to pack a weapon of choice when insane assholes attack??
Just asking.
well, we know it wasnt a vampire.
Ummmmm…
“I could see him shooting in just every direction. He wasn’t aiming at anyone specifically. It was just left to right, right to left. …
“He definitely was prepared for what he was doing,” she said.
NO HE WASN’T! OR THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE DEAD! WTF? Not that I endorse this mayhem or the slaughter of innocents, but really, WTF?
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
I’m sure Newsom and Harris will come up with a solution to fix this…
3 2 1 And more bull from the left on nobody needs a killing machine, more than two bullets or a black gun with a large clip.
Since its Cali we should assume he’s using Cali compliant 5 ( or is it 10?) round magazines, right ?
They don’t know anything yet, but…IT’S A WHITE GUY!!!!
A friend commented to me 2 days ago he expected a mass shooting soon to take attention away from Mueller’s testimony and Epstein the pedophile. Here it is.
Definitely a Bernie supporter.
What are the chances it’s the two Canadian teenagers they have been looking for first in British Columbia and then they thought they were in Manitoba? Instead of hiding in the woods there they escaped to California? Probably unlikely but the northern border has many remote spots to get across too. Just a theory.
No one is safe anywhere and blaming Trump doesn’t solve a thing. 😢
He was a white guy 25 to 35 years old. Police shot him. He’s dead.
No description of the dead and injured victims at this time. Rest in Peace. Another horror.
Another registered Democrat? Place yer bets.
“The band Tin Man was just starting an encore when shots rang out. Singer Jack van Breen said he saw a man wearing a green shirt and grayish handkerchief around his neck fire into the food area with what looked like an assault rifle.”
What’s that gray Muslim scarf called that leftists wear?
Grool – it’s called a keffiyah
If they ban garlic this kind of thing would not happen.
/serious – the perp will either be a Mohammedan or a Leftist. Either way, get a screenshot of their social media before they get Killary-corrected to either disappear or changed to make the perp appear to be a racist or Repub or proTrump or “radical Christian”
Meanwhil Chicago sez: Even on a slow weekend, we win!
More than 30 people in Chicago were shot this weekend…
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G’s up, cloves down.
Reportedly, someone asked the shooter while he was doing this snd he replied that he was “really mad”. No sense waiting to find out that another leftist was radicalized by MSNBC and Ilhan can say white men are a threat.