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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 o ....
That obviously made a part in the success of neutralizing this threat and getting to those injured individuals quickly and potentially save some lives. julie: the currently gunman whose name i will not mention to give him credit for this managed to get this gun, which was some kind of ak-47, some kind of assault rifle, legally in nevada. he is a resident, citizen, is gilroy, california. so he went out of state, legally purchase this weapon, then came back in. clearly there is premeditation here. we don t know if there was a second possible suspect preliminary ask you, how do they read through all these reports connect the police chief there said they ve gotten multiple reports there could potentially be a second person, which is what happened in las vegas, if you recall. somebody, perhaps an accomplice, helps drop him off. you don t know at this point. how do you get that information? absolutely. listen to the press conference, in these type of situations i can tell you it s not ab ....
as you speak we re getting first video right here from gilroy, aerial video. you can see fire trucks and police cars that have responded. let s go to shimon for us in new york city, our crime and justice reporter. shimon, maybe you can shed light on when something like this breaks out gilroy is not that near large cities. so, talk with us about what the response would be like and where they would pull resources in from. so, certainly the neighboring counties is something you would see law enforcement/police officers from nearby. obviously you also have the california highway patrol. you can see some of their vehicles there in the video, their suvs. they re on scene. they can respond pretty quickly with additional resources. the atf, as we heard, they were responding, so they would bring in resources as well as the fbi from probably san jose. ....
How many people might have been there? how many people live in gilroy? so, gilroy s a city of a little more than 50,000 people, about 20 miles to our south. and we re a city of 1.1 million, so obviously we re the nearest big city. hundreds of thousands of people attend the gilroy garlic festival every year. it s a big attraction. it celebrates the agricultural heritage of the town and it raises money for local nonprofits. it s an incredibly wonderful family friendly event. and this is the last place anyone would want to imagine such a horrible thing happening. we have a tweet there on our screen right there from the gilroy police confirming that this is still an active crime scene meaning that this shooter or the shooters, we just don t know how many, has not been apprehended. and also announcing that they will have an update soon. this should be the first from the police. so, let s read it right here. ....
This is a still developing story. but we do know that witnesses have told cnn that they heard multiple shots fired here at the garlic festival. some of you may be asking where is gilroy, california? it s about 80 miles south of san francisco. as you illuded to earlier, this is an extremely popular event. garlic is big business in the gilroy area so this is well-attended. we ve seen numerous reports that suggest many victims have been taken to local hospitals and people have reported that they have seen people on the ground at this festival. but right now the information is just trickling in, and as you showed earlier, the gilroy police department saying active shooter. so, it is not known whether or not, natalie, to your question, that shooter has been app remend hended. i ve just gotten news from our producer here that the shooter has not been apprehended. so, let s talk about what that ....