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December 26, 2024

 Two friends recover from bullet wounds from Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting

Brynn Ota-Matthews and Gabriella Gaus were in the inflatable obstacle course at the Gilroy Garlic Festival when a shooter opened fire on the crowd. The two friends from Santa Cruz ran from the play structure to the festival parking lot, and only then realized they’d...

Killer posted Garlic Festival image on Instagram before opening fire

Santino William Legan, the 19-year-old Garlic Festival killer, was one of four brothers in a well-known Gilroy family who grew up in a neighborhood near Christmas Hill Park, scene of the July 28 mass shooting that left three dead and 13 injured. He graduated...

Christopher Ranch exec reaches out to community after Garlic Festival shooting

Ken Christopher joined friends and family at home the afternoon of July 28, celebrating the 4,000 volunteers who poured in countless hours to make Gilroy’s annual celebration of cloves and community a success. The 41st annual Gilroy Garlic Festival was well on its way to...

BULLETIN: FBI launches terrorism investigation into Garlic Festival shooting

The FBI launched a domestic terrorism investigation into the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, officials announced Tuesday. John Bennett, special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Francisco division, told reporters at a Gilroy press conference that the investigation of Santino William Legan’s digital devices uncovered...

Gilroy Mayor Roland Velasco: Visions of Garlic Festival terror linger

Gilroy Mayor, Roland Velasco, arrived at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in the early evening of July 28 to help Chamber of Commerce volunteers tear down their remaining booths. He was standing by the beer garden at the middle of Christmas Hill Park when he...

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee talks about the Garlic Festival shooting

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee stopped by the Garlic Festival law enforcement tent at “Gate 3” on Miller Avenue on his way home with his family about 5:20pm July 28. He was on US 101 just south of Gilroy about 20 minutes later when...

Police chief names ‘hero’ officers in Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting

Eric Cryar, Hugo Del Moral and Robert Basuino are the Gilroy police officers hailed as heroes for shooting and killing the gunman who murdered three people and injured more than a dozen others at the Gilroy Garlic Festival July 28.

Eyewitnesses to Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting describe terror at the park

Lisa Faria was turning the corner at the Gilroy Garlic Festival’s “Gourmet Alley” with Gilroy Chamber of Commerce colleague Michelle Campbell when she heard shots fired. “I made a comment about what idiot would bring firecrackers to a garlic festival or something like that,” Faria...

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 wrapping up for the weekend Sunday night, July 28, according to police. The youngest victim was Stephen Romero of San Jose,...

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