Monthly Archives: July 2019
#GilroyStrong is community response to festival shootings
As the 41st annual Garlic Festival was in full swing, Christopher Ranch’s executive vice president, Ken Christopher told the Gilroy Dispatch that this year...
Stephen Romero, Keyla Salazar, Trevor Irby killed in Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting
All three of the fatally wounded victims of the July 28 mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival were young people visiting Gilroy, attending...
Leaders respond to Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting via tweets
With the July 28 shootings at the Garlic Festival, Gilroy has joined the ever-growing list of communities affected by gun violence, and with that...
Garlic Festival shooting suspect showed no warning signs of violence
Neighbors of Santino William Legan were surprised to learn the 19-year-old Gilroy native reportedly went on a shooting spree July 28 at the Garlic Festival, killing three people and wounding another dozen before being shot by police.
Police, FBI, ATF comb scene of Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting
A gunman at the Gilroy Garlic Festival killed a 6-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and a 25-year-old man as the three-day food festival was...
Patricia Elise Lemos
Patricia Elise Lemos, of Gilroy, passed away July 27, 2019. She was 90 years of age.
She is survived by her sisters and their husbands,...
Estella A Hopkins
Estella, loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed away peacefully on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, after a short hospital stay. She was 85 years old.
Estella...
Bennie Pearl Ebbs Patterson
Bennie Pearl Ebbs Patterson passed away at her Gilroy residence, surrounded by her loving family, on July 19, 2019 at the age of 89...
Ervin “Earl” Ruben Heinrich
Ervin “Earl” Ruben Heinrich, 83, of Morgan Hill died July 17, 2019. He is survived by his wife of 57 years Ellen and...
Photographer’s Notebook from the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: On the front lines
By Robert Eliason
After initial reports of a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, I was assigned by the Gilroy Dispatch to go to...
