Vista for american film. This is cnn breaking news. Im Natalie Allen at cnn center in atlanta. We are following breaking news here. A shooting has occurred in california at a Food Festival near san jose. This is video new into cnn from a witness. The sound of gunshots there and people running as this festival was about to end. This is when it happened. It happened in gilroy, california at the annual and very popular gilroy garlic
festival marketed as one of the countrys largest Food Festivals. According to local news reports quoting witnesses, there are people hurt, and a Law Enforcement official tells us that the atf is responding. This tweeted a short time ago from the Police Department. It says the hearts of gilroy pd and entire community go out to the victims of todays shooting at the garlic festival. The scene is still active. We are closely following the developments from the breaking news. Cnn is monitoring the story from our l. A. Bureau. Also with us, cnn crime and justice rep
the peace and quiet of this gilroy festival just shattered. gilroy calls itself the garlic capitol of the world. routinely some 80 to 100,000 people will attend this event over a weekend. we now understand that one of the victims, a 6-year-old boy. back to you now, dave. heartbreaking. paul live for us in la this morning. thank you. thousands were still enjoying the gilroy garlic fefstive val as it wrapped up when the shots rang out triggering panic, confusion and a desperate run for cover. the first man you ll hear was a stage hand for the final musical act of the day. the bullets were hitting the ground. you could see them going up. that s when i called out, it s a real gun. the crew and the band ran and hid underneath the stage. we were hiding underneath the stage. would he could hear more gun fire happening. eventually some gunfire happened and bullets were hitting the
identification of the individual should be made quickly if the police don t know it already. we re seeing video of a creek and some witnesses were saying there is a creek behind this festival and wondered if that s how this person moved in because apparently according to one witness i just talked with, they were dressed in fatigues. i think we have another witness now. shawn, tell our viewers out there what it was like for you. you told me it was around 5:30 this afternoon, this evening when everything erupted. yeah. you can see you could hear bullets. and the bullets were hitting the ground. you can see them go up. that s when i called out it s a real gun. so, the crew and the band ran and hid underneath the stage. so, we were hiding underneath the stage. we could hear more gunfire happening. eventually some gunfire happened and bullets were hitting the stage that we were hiding
also all of it very tragic and now we hear that one of the victims, a 6-year-old boy. back to you now, christine, dave. thank you so much for that. keep us updated with information. thanks. thousands were still enjoying the gilroy garlic festival as it began to wrap up sunday when shots rang out. the first man you ll hear was a stage hand in the final music act of the day. bullets were hitting the ground. you could see them going up. that s when i called out, it s a real gun. the crew and the band ran and hid underneath the stage. we were hiding underneath the stage. we could hear more gunfire happening. bullets were hitting the stage that we were heighting underneath and then eventually it stopped. people were calling out looking for different people. eventually we came out and i could see there was someone down and they were performing cpr on them. then i heard it was the gunman.
for the very, very quick response time. smithee says witnesses reported a second attacker but he said it s unclear what role that person might have played. thousands were still enjoying the gilroy garlic festival as it was wrapping up. the first man you re going to hear here was a stage hand for the final musical act of the day. the bullets were hitting the grouped. you could see them going up. that s why i called out, it s a real gun. the crew and the band ran and hid underneath the stage. so we were hiding underneath the stage. we could hear more gunfire happening. eventually some gunfire happened, bullets were hitting the stage that we were hiding underneath and then eventually it stopped. there was people just calling out looking for people. eventually we came out and i could seize there was someone down and they were performing cpr on them. later i heard it was the gunman.