This somber monday morning ad lib good morning and thank you for joining us. I m laura garcia. And i m marcus washington. We ll have extensive coverage f the shooting Just Moments Away but first let s get a quick check of your forecast and traffic. Now back to our breaking news folling for nearly 12 hours now the deadly shooting rampage at the gilroy garlic festival. It happened at a little before 6 pm at Christmas Hill park atgilroy garlic festival. At the Christmas Hill park. This is the festival has been held for decades. Here is the latest. Three people are dead. Sources say the gunman was not on anyones radar as a threat. Witnesses talk about a second person involved but authorities are still trying to sort that out. We are expecting another News Conference at 10 00 a. M. This morning. In the meantime, eyewitnesses are describing the terror as those shots rang out. Bob is live at the scene with more of the chilling accounts there. Bob . Are here last night say this man was firing
First. Then i saw him point a weapon. It was pop, pop, pop, pop. I was running. I was terrified. I was terrified. How many times have we heard witness accounts like that. Look at one of those who was killed yesterday. He was stephen ramiro. He was just 6 years old. There he is. The Gilroy Police chief says the gunman cut through a fence to get into the festival. They say they stopped him within minutes of his first shot but there is now a manhunt under way for a second suspect. Cnn National Coordinator sara sidner is live in gilroy. What are we learning about the shooter or shooters and the weapon used . Police have not used the word shooters. What they have said is they do believe there may be, possibly, a second person who was somehow involved but so far they have only said they believe there is so far one shooter in all of this. I want to bring up a detail here, which i think is very significant. Police say they engaged this shooter within one minute. But within that minute three pe
hometown. a community in mourning. together we are stronger than anything that tries to divide us. reporter: gathering to remember the lives lost in the latest mass shooting in america. they re going to say we re strong, but they re going to say we are a beacon of hope, that we are that shining light. reporter: the attack killed three young people and left at least 12 others injured. any time a life is lost it s a tragedy, but when it s young people it s even worse. reporter: among the victims 13-year-old kayla salazar. and the youngest stephen ramiro who had just turned 6 was excited to start grade school
first. then i saw him point a weapon. it was pop, pop, pop, pop. i was running. i was terrified. i was terrified. how many times have we heard witness accounts like that. look at one of those who was killed yesterday. he was stephen ramiro. he was just 6 years old. there he is. the gilroy police chief says the gunman cut through a fence to get into the festival. they say they stopped him within minutes of his first shot but there is now a manhunt under way for a second suspect. cnn national coordinator sara sidner is live in gilroy. what are we learning about the shooter or shooters and the weapon used? police have not used the word shooters. what they have said is they do believe there may be, possibly, a second person who was somehow involved but so far they have only said they believe there is so far one shooter in all of this. i want to bring up a detail here, which i think is very
for our u.s. viewers we do have some breaking news. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good morning and welcome to your new day. it is monday july 29th. it is 8:00 in the east. we re in detroit ahead of the cnn presidential debates. they take place tomorrow night but we do have breaking news for you. overnight a mass shooting at a fair in california. this happened at a popular food festival in gilroy. you may have heard of it. three killed, 11 injured. witnesses described chaos when the shots rang out. police say the gunman used an assault-style rifle. one of those killed was a 6-year-old boy named stephen ramiro. there s his picture on the scene. he was there with his sister and