engines in the city of gilroy, so we sent all of our resources as well as our south county neighbors. two additional battalion chiefs and then requested 16 local mutual aid engines to respond down here as well. our gilroy battalion chief assumed command at 1745 hours, along with the first arriving fire engine that was dispatched from outside of the garlic festival event. we had a total of six ground ambulances and two supervisors from the county. we had three air ambulances and we did a total of there were 16 total transports, 13 of which were done by the fire department and ems agency. three of those, again, were air ambulances and eight ground ambulances. i will leave it to the police department to talk about the actual state of the deceased in this event.
no. the second person was not armed is that correct? we don t know the involvement. i don t know what the injuries are. i haven t got a report. i do know that the list they re keeping the master list was up to 15 people the last time i looked. including i have no idea what the motive is at this point. what did witness report seeing? suggesting there was a second shooter or someone working with the shooter? i m sorry, i don t have specifics on that. other than people reported a subject leaving the area. they thought was associated with this person. a gilroy officer that took him out? it was gilroy officers that engaged the suspect, yes. do you have ages. i do not have the age range.
sent all of our resources as well as our south county neighbor. two chiefs and requested 16 local engines to respond down here as well. our gilroy, at 17:45 hours along with the first engine dispatched outside of the garlic festival event. we had a total of six ground ambulances and two supervisors from the county. we had three area ambulances. there were 16 total transports and 13 by the fire department in ems agency. there s of those were area of ambulances. i will leave it to the police department to talk about the actual state of the deceased in this event.
i wouldn t say that s a fair characterization. i m going to stop now. good evening. i m brian bow. executive director of the gilroy garlic festival. to reiterate what he said, gilroy is an amazing community. a tightly nit community. we are family. we have the wonderful opportunity in the community to celebrate our family through our garlic festival. and for over four decades that festival has been our annual family reunion. and it is such a sad just horribly upsetting circumstance that this happened. on the third and final day of
and do you know if one of the victims was the shooter? i do not believe so. there s another reporter who just asked if one of the victims taken to the two santa clara valley health systems was the shooter, and joy does not believe so. i do not believe that we received the shooter. okay. do you have any information for people who might be trying to come to your hospitals, because, like you said, they may have these nongunshot related injuries? i do not. i don t have the information, but there is through the city of gilroy command center, there is a family reunification number for people to call. but if people have an injury that s perhaps minor, do you need people to stay away from our emergency rooms? are you guys packed right now? any advice to people who can go to if people are injured, they can come in. if they can wait until tomorrow to see their doctor if it s not a serious injury, they should do that. but if they have an injury they re concerned about, they shou