speak. so, a lot more information will be coming to light throughout the evening and into the morning tomorrow. and if we have additional information to share, we ll push out through our social media platforms. it will set up another conference so that we can share that information with you. this incident tonight started at about 5:41 p.m. 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. the suspect was shot and killed. it appears as if they had come into the festival via the creek which borders a parking area, and they used some sort of a
officer-involved shootings. that s another layer of complexity with the shooting that we re investigating from the suspect. we put out a call for assistance. we had many, many officers in the park at the time that this occurred as we do any day during festival which accounts for the very, very quick response time. when we put out the call the record help, we ve gotten help from agencies all across santa clara county and monterey county. and i can t thank those agencies enough. they came from, you know, pretty good distances away to be here to help support and provide assistance with our investigation in deal being the chaos of the scene at the time that it occurred. we have set up some things, you know, a reunification. you know, in the panic, people go out different ways than they came in and families got separated. and so we have this area gavolin
i don t i don t have their specific ages at this time. i probably have more of this tomorrow. i don t know that i m going to get a lot more tonight. and i don t think the patients situation will change tonight. anybody who s here now is going to stay overnight. so, we probably won t have another update for you until tomorrow. when was the last time your health care system has had to work with so many patients from a mass shooting? never from a mass shooting. we ve had multiple patients from other sort of emergencies, most often a hazmat incident. we get a number of patients. but this is, you know, this is just a tough situation for our community, for our staff, for the families and the victims. it s just awful. and hopefully we ll never see another one of these again. but it s hard to tell. were you ready for this or.
briefing that he may have known these very individuals. one of the things that did come out when i look at this, clint, was because you and i were talking earlier in the evening about how three sides, at least according to the map, that this park where this festival is held every year is open to rolling hills. and one of those locations earlier we were watching it on air from a chopper cam was a creek or a little river. and you heard the chief of police say that at this location they found evidence of cutting through one of the fence, right? and that this suspect entered through that and began shooting. just another element of could you prepare for that and how tough it is to create a security
we heard a bunch of gun shots, we thought it was fire crackers, 10, 15 shots. then we saw everybody running. we started running as well. people shooting, crying, running, scared. we went to the children s area, way on the other side of the park where my other family was. only out one way, the blocked the other way, where the shooting started. we were walking, there was a guy with a green shirt on, who said what happened, a guy who changed clothes into green fatigues and started shooting. everybody started running, i was