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The gunman who killed three people and injured 15 at a food festival in Northern California Sunday evening has been identified, PEOPLE confirms.
A source with knowledge of the investigation tells PEOPLE the suspected gunman is Santino William Legan, 19. Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said in a press conference the shooter was originally from Gilroy.
At a press conference late Sunday evening, Smithee said shots rang out at 5:41 p.m. and that police fatally shot the suspect within a minute.
Smithee said police do not know the motive of the shooting, but multiple outlets have reported the shooter referenced a white supremacist book on his Instagram account just before the shooting.
Festivalgoers leave Christmas Hill Park after a deadly shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, in Gilroy, California.Noah Berger/AP/Shutterstock
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Stephen’sgrandmother, Maribel Romero, told ABC-7 that her grandson was a“kind, “happy,” and “playful” boy.
She said she was at home at the time of the shooting, but that Stephen had attended the festival with his mother and other grandmother — both of whom were also shot in the incident. They have been hospitalized, Romero said.
Gilroy is a city of about 50,000 people located 20 miles south of San Jose that draws 100,000 to the festival celebrating its claim as the “Garlic Capital of the World,”the Associated Press reports.
Susan Katz Keating
source: people.com
