GILROY, Calif. (AP) A gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at Northern California's popular Gilroy Garlic Festival, killing three and wounding at least 15 before police fatally shot him as terrified people and performers ran for cover.
Festival in northern california. gilroy police chief scot smithee said one suspect is among the fatalities and a second person may have been involved. there were reports of the 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. they used some sort of a tool to cut through the fence to be able to gain access through the secure fence line. that s how they got into the festival area itself. we have one suspect we know that is down. we have some witnesses reporting that there may have been a second suspect, but we don t know if that suspect was engaged in any shooting or whether they may have in some sort of a support role for the person that we have accounted for.
Association we ve got a long way to go before we can come to a determination on what his motivation was. that s all the questions we are going to take for now. i did make a commitment to the spanish-speaking stations that i would give an interview outside in spanish. if you would like to set up outside, i will take care of that. and you have a questions we will take later. there will be future conferences that we put together. the total number of victims, as we understand it, was 16. three deceased, and julie: and that concludes the news conference with an update coming from gilroy, california. you heard from the mayor there and just now the police chief of gilroy, california, police department scot smithee getting