Are incredibly humble. I think theyre heroes. I dont think they view themselves that way. I think they view themselves that they were just doing their job. And i dont think theyre particularly excited about being in the limelight. But i certainly think that they deserve recognition for what they did. Reporter the three Police Officers, eric prior, 23year veteran, hugo, 17 years vet, robert, 13 years a vet, all responded within minutes of a report that a shooter was firing shots at the crowd of the gilroy garlic festival. Today personal belongings left at the park have been cleared out and sent to rut ger elementary. Those items are available for pickup. Vendors will be contacted by the festival organizers. The Festival Grounds is still an active crime scene with more than 100 fbi staff from all over the country brought in to help with evidence. Were collecting evidence and doing bullet trajectory. We have to account for every round that came out of everybodys weapons. Some of those rou
The community in gilroy and the garlic that it produces its a fun family event. The live picture that were looking at the bigger box on your screen is that press conference that is set to start at 10 oclock it got a push back from 9. 30 is there still a lot of information i guess for them to coordinate and organize and they want to provide us with the latest information so as soon as that starts we will bring it to you. The other box showing us the Massive Police presence and Law Enforcement that descended upon the gilroy garlic festival, not only to help the injured with at least 3. Dead and 12 hurt. Possibly more than that we learned that in a minute but all the Police Agencies that came including a gilroy neighboring Police Agencies, san jose. Campbell los gatos a chp also responded as well as the Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office atf and San Francisco also put in information that they were going to help. 10s of thousands of people there on the last day of the festival. Police also
Standing around. Who are they . Social media right now . And you can come here for this update that we have been waiting for hours to get an update from police who would release information along twitter and for the official confirmation, coming from our sources. But gosh, im looking at 15 camera reporters, you heard us talking to the witnesses and the Highway Patrols here and Law Enforcement. And there is quite a lot of people here as we are trying to get our camera set up, and as we are live on tough trying to get your shot from police as we all know it will be involved earlier today and still hearing these stories come out of the frightful disturbing violence that broke out in this south bay at this south bay annual tradition. I know that it is really choppy where you are right now, a woman who gave pretty specific details as to what you saw and the beginning as we came through a little bit late. What stood out to you as to what she said . And well julie, she was a vendor and the fa
Hill park, in just the last hour, this is what weve learned from police about the gun man. At 5 41 pm, shots were reported to police. Police unseen engage the suspect immediately. The suspect was shot and killed by police believed to be armed with a rifle. We have learned that the shooter was able to gain entry into the venue by a nearby creek and managed to cut by the fence to bypass security. Police say they do believe based on witness statements, that another person may be involved in this incident. Here is the latest from police. There were reports of shooting on the north side of the garlic festival area. Officers were in that area and engaged the suspect in less than a minute. They had come into the festival via the creek which borders a parking area, and they used some sort of a tool to cut through the fence to be able to gain access through the secured fence line. Thats how they got in to the festival area itself. We have one suspect we know that is down. We have some witnesses
Gunman shot somewhat randomly throughout the festival area. That gunfire rang out on the third and final day, a population of 55,000 as we said, and this festival has been going on for four decades. They were playing on the vineyard stage and that is on the Northwest Side of the Festival Grounds. That is twh they heard those initial gunshots ring out. And actually one of the players actually was able to see the gunman facing the other direction. Abc 7 News Reporter amanda del castillo. Reporter Gilroy Police say at least a dozen agencies have responded to todays incident including agencies from Santa Clara County and Monterey County. While its been pretty calm at this staging area, in the last 30 minutes we did see three buses, charter buses full of people travel away from the garlic Festival Grounds. Were just standing a few hundred feet from that entrance. Now, its unclear who was on that bus at the time, but we do know it was likely the vendors. All day outside this specific staging