Condition. So it was a scene just people are wounded. Cant wait for an ambulance, were going to move, five people did that. 11 others have been transported as well. They have been injured. We dont know exactly of all these we talk about the casualties here, how many of them were hit by bullets, trampled by others, ran into something we dont know. But we do have 11 people injured plus five patients taken by private vehicle to st. Maries hospital. Live reporting here and you can see theyre now accessing information from local sources. They are from our Affiliate Kntv in Northern California. Gilroy, california. If youre just joining us here on msnbc, it is 8 00 p. M. Pacific time, 11 00 p. M. Eastern. As we watch this breaking story coming out of Northern California, again this location is a Food Festival. We got reports of this locally tat this happened right around 5 30. That would then put it around three hours ago, a little bit
less than three hours ago when the reporting is there was
that stuff that we just don t see, but its all happening, and while this search is going on the ground, you know, for possible suspects, all that intelligence is spinning up around northern california right now. yeah, more questions than answers certainly right now. jim kavanaugh, former special agent, atf, thank you, sir, as always. an unfortunate story we have to report but always good to have you along with this as we try to understand this breaking story. if you re just joining us on msnbc during our breaking news coverage of a mass shooting of an active of what we believe scene according to police in gilroy, california, as we resum up for you, reset at the bottom of the hour in case you re just joining us. gilroy, california, hour a half south of san francisco, reports of a shooting. local affiliate reporting 16 shot, three dead, not confirmed by nbc news. also a local hospital reporting
california agency did say this, the hearts of gilroy police department and the entire community go out to the victims of today s shooting at the garlic festival. the scene is still active. when they said the scene was still active, this was about 36 minutes ago, and they also say that the reunification point for anybody involved in this is about ten minutes away or about if you were to walk, a good hour. again, that was about 30, 40 minutes ago that the police department there in gilroy did put out that piece of information. they also about 13 minutes ago did say a witness line and a family reunification line has been put out. they also are saying if you did see something today to please call the number they have on their twitter account, and they would of course suggest it s for emergencies only. we are looking potentially here of that reunification point. it is tough to tell, but this is a different scene than what we
with otherwise. you know, just to describe more of the topography here, this particular park is about 50 acres. in terms of borders to it, you ve got mountains. mountains make hills more appropriately said right on three sides of this particular park. this park like many has baseball diamonds, hiking, horseshoe areas, playgrounds. we have a nice broad view here from chopper cam. but in terms of being able to corner off where three sides of it basically are open to the hills or potentially open to the hills, not blocked off by streets which could be potentially easily more cordoned off. and again we re taking this picture that s coming and going live out of gilroy, california. how can they cordon off such an
five injured taken to their location. the police department there in gilroy, california, their last update via their twitter account was about an hour ago. they re saying the scene is still active. the live pictures we have for you on the right-hand side and the pictures wave been watching from chopper cams there in california, it s around 8:00 p.m. we re about three hours into this incident. it happened around three hours ago. bottom of the hour 5:00 hour is when they re saying an active shooter took place. that was the report coming out of northern california. you can tell sunset is now upon them. that happened is happening officially within the last 15 minutes. and so the lights you see in the lower left-hand side of your screen, those are live pictures. law enforcement now still working on the ground shoulder to shoulder at least what we seesaw when there was light moving through the perimeter and the grounds of christmas hill