{"id":176607,"date":"2019-07-29T07:57:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=176607"},"modified":"2019-07-29T16:07:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T21:07:37","slug":"shooting-at-california-garlic-festival-kills-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=176607","title":{"rendered":"Shooting at California Garlic Festival kills 3, Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_176660\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176660\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-176660\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GarlicShootingGilroyCA-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-176660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GILROY, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Authorities on Monday were searching for answers to why a 19-year-old opened fire on a popular food festival less than a mile from his parents&#8217; home in California, killing two children and another young man, but believe many more people would have died if officers patrolling the event had not stopped the gunman so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>(AP Photo\/Noah Berger)<\/p>\n<p>Santino William Legan, 19, cut through a fence and appeared to randomly target people with an &#8220;assault-type rifle&#8221; Sunday afternoon, the end of the three-day Gilroy Garlic Festival that attracts about 100,000 people to the city known as the &#8220;Garlic Capital of the World,&#8221; Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded in less than a minute, and Legan turned his &#8220;AK-47-type&#8221; gun on them, Smithee said. Three officers fired back and killed Legan, who legally purchased the weapon this month in Nevada, where his last address is listed.<\/p>\n<p>Previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>GILROY, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Edward and Jane Jacobucci said they were standing at their booth selling garlic graters when the shooting started Sunday afternoon at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Jacobucci said the shooting was \u201cabsolute chaos.\u201d \u201dIt happened right in front of our booth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Jacobucci described the shooter as a tall, thin young man in camouflage with a big gun.<\/p>\n<p>She said her husband threw her to the ground when the shooting started.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were killed and at least 15 others injured in the shooting. Also dead is the shooter, who used a rifle and gained entry to the packed festival by cutting through a fence to avoid the tight security, including metal detectors, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILROY, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Authorities on Monday were searching for answers to why a 19-year-old opened fire on a popular food festival less than a mile from his parents&#8217; home in California, killing two children and another young man, but believe many more people would have died if officers patrolling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176661,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176607\/revisions\/176661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}