[NEWS] Gunman scorned California garlic festival on social media before mass shooting – Loganspace AI

GILROY, Calif. (Reuters) – Police on Monday diagnosed a 19-year-ragged California man as the gunman who opened hearth with an assault rifle at a garlic festival in Gilroy, California, killing three people and wounding a pair of dozen.

Santino William Legan, 19, in the reduction of thru a fence on the festival on Sunday evening and shot people, apparently at random, with an “AK-47-style” assault rifle, Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee told journalists. Legan became fatally shot interior a pair of minute by police.

“It is going to additionally hold long past so powerful worse so rapid,” Smithee said, noting that the festival, which takes space about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Silicon Valley, is attended by hundreds of tourists.

Police and FBI brokers were on the lookout for to envision a motive for the taking pictures and investigating unconfirmed reports by witnesses that Legan could presumably well additionally honest hold had an confederate.

Smithee said that search warrants had been bought for a home in Gilroy linked to the suspect and a automobile that police agree with he drove to the festival.

Legan killed a 6-year-ragged boy, a 13-year-ragged lady and a man in his 20s, Smithee said. Police agree with Legan, who became on the initiating from Gilroy, purchased the rifle legally on July 9 in Nevada, where he had no longer too long ago been living.

A minimal of 11 people were treated for wounds, a spokesman for the Santa Clara Successfully being System said in a recorded commentary unhurried on Monday.

Of those shot, 5 remained on the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Monday evening, he said. Of the 5, three were in serious or gentle situation and two wished to shouldn’t hold any data released, he said.

Early police reports said that one person became in serious situation on Sunday.

One other 10 people got diversified, non-existence threatening accidents, the successfully being heart spokesman said, and were treated at St. Louise Regional Successfully being facility.

Seven of the victims ranged in age between 12 and 69, officers said. Police had on the initiating said that 15 people were wounded.

‘WICKED MURDERER’

President Donald Trump described the gunman as a “heinous assassin” all the blueprint in which thru an match on the White House and requested American citizens to pray for the victims.

“We grieve for their families, and we quiz that God will consolation them with his overflowing mercy and grace,” Trump said.

The gunman became believed to hold in the reduction of thru the fence in describe to evade steel detectors and diversified security measures on the doorway, police said.

Legan looked as if it would submit a photograph from the festival on his Instagram myth at this time sooner than the taking pictures, with captions expressing his disdain for the match.

“Ayyy garlic festival time,” he wrote below a image of people walking thru the festival grounds. “Come safe wasted on overpriced shit.”

One other photo posted on Sunday confirmed a signal warning of a excessive chance of forest fires. Its caption urged people to read “Would possibly presumably well is Factual,” a racist and sexist treatise written in the nineteenth century.

“Why overcrowd towns and pave extra delivery home to assemble room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?” the caption said, referring to people of mixed crawl. The parable became handiest a pair of days ragged, and became deactivated on Monday.

Police said they had certain that a 20-year-ragged man who posted on social media on Monday that he had “true shot up the G-festival” became no longer fascinated with the incident and became true on the lookout for out attention.

Photos uploaded to social media confirmed festival attendees scattering in fright and confusion as loud popping sounds could presumably well additionally be heard in the background.

Police declined to title the taking pictures victims on Monday however the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner diagnosed the 2 youngest as Stephen Romero, 6, and Keyla Salazar, 13, of San Jose.

The boy’s grandmother, Maribel Romero, described Stephen as a loving boy who became “the least bit times kind, elated and … prankish.”

His mother and his diversified grandmother were additionally shot and were being treated in successfully being heart, Maribel Romero told media.

A vigil became scheduled in Gilroy for the victims on Monday evening.

Founded in 1979, the Gilroy Garlic Festival is an annual match speed by volunteers and held out of doorways at Christmas Hill Park. The agricultural community bills itself as the “Garlic Capital of the World.”

Weapons of any kind are prohibited, in accordance to the match’s internet snort, which additionally said someone carrying clothing or paraphernalia indicating membership in a gang, including a motorbike membership, would be refused entry.