Survivors Recall Fear GAVILAN COLLEGE SERVES AS REUNIFICATION CENTER
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1 ESTABLISHED 1868 A New SV Media publication Friday, August 2, 2019 gilroydispatch.com • Vol. 152, No. 31 • $1 WE WILL NOT FORGETThe gunman at the Gilroy Garlic Festival THEM killed a 6-year-old boy, 13-year-old girl and 25-year-old man, and wounded 12 others. Trevor Irby, New York Stephen Romero, San Jose Keyla Salazar, San Jose Robert Eliason Robert MORE ON THE GARLIC FESTIVAL SHOOTING, MOMENT OF SILENCE Three of the more than 1,000 people who attended the first of several vigils P 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 this week light candles for the victims of the Garlic Festival shootings. Survivors recall fear GAVILAN COLLEGE SERVES AS REUNIFICATION CENTER Erik Chalhoub Business Editor Cheryl Low and Candace Marquez, employees of Honey Ladies, were just returning to their booth after a break when they heard a shot ring out. There, they saw a gunman reloading a clip and begin heading toward their booth. “The kids were in there,” Low said. “When we came back around, my boss and her husband were lying on the ground, and both were shot. My granddaughter was hiding, and I went and grabbed her. The next thing we knew, they had killed the shooter.” Chalhoub Erik Low and Marquez were among the hundreds of peo- ple who flooded Gavilan College’s parking lot shortly after the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting the evening of EYEWITNESSES Cheryl Low, right, and Candace Marquez, employees of ➝ Shooting GAVILAN, 10 Honey Ladies, a festival vendor, recount harrowing experience for reporters. 6 58015 02001 0 Experience Santa Cruz Cannabis New State-of-the-Art Location Original Location 533 Ocean St. • Santa Cruz 3600 Soquel Ave. • Santa Cruz 8am – 9pm Daily 8am – 10pm Daily Valid ID Required | All 21+ Welcome | 18+ Medical Licenses: A-10-17-0000003-TEMP • A-10-17-0000002-TEMP 2 2 GILROY DISPATCH AUGUST 2, 2019 Killings stun city evening, police early this The shooter made entry The shooting scene week could not confirm to the festival by cutting a at Christmas Hill Park that anyone other than hole in a perimeter fence remained off limits this Legan was involved in the surrounding the city park week, secured by a perim- shooting, Smithee said. that has been site of the eter of police officers. The However, the chief said festival for more than four FBI is assisting local police July 30 that the more the decades. The hole in the in investigating the shoot- incident is investigated, fence bypassed security ing. Smithee said Gilroy the more police think that checkpoints, Smithee said Police Department accepted Legan acted alone. Sunday night. The chief help from the federal Also at a July 30 press said Legan used an “assault- authorities due to the size conference, Smithee con- type rifle” similar to an SKS of the crime scene, which firmed that investiga- to shoot the victims. Legan the FBI described as “sev- tors at Christmas Hill purchased the firearm eral hundred acres.” Park found a bag contain- legally in Nevada on July 9, FBI agent Craig Fair of the ing more ammunition in Smithee said. bureau’s San Francisco di- nearby Uvas Creek. In the days after the vision said more than 40 Smithee praised the shooting, police served FBI evidence technicians actions of Gilroy police search warrants on Legan’s were still at Christmas Hill officers on duty at the Gilroy home, his vehicle Park Tuesday processing Tarmo Hannula Tarmo Garlic Festival, who and a residence he was evidence. He expects the quickly responded to associated with in Nevada, team will continue to pro- reports of shots fired about according to authori- cess the scene for at least 5:40pm July 28. He said ties. Found in his vehi- the rest of this week. CRIME SCENE Hundreds of law enforcement officers from local, state and three officers confronted cle, which was parked on federal agencies block entrance to Christmas Hill Park as they pore over the suspect as he returned Laurel Drive on the north- Chamber president evidence related to the Garlic Festival shootings. fire at the police, and shot east edge of the festival helps victims and killed the gunman site, was a shotgun. As of Monday morning, within a minute of reports Police think this shot- many survivors were still of the initial gunshots. gun was also purchased by trying to figure out who DEAD INCLUDE to a GoFundMe page on injuries at the festival in Legan in Nevada. made it out of the festi- 6-YEAR-OLD BOY, social media after the shoot- Christmas Hill Park; all Quick shooting A spokeswoman for val alive. On Facebook, 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL, ing. South County Chrysler required treatment at area saved lives Santa Clara Valley Medical hundreds of people be- 25-YEAR-OLD MAN Dodge Jeep Ram also set up a hospitals. “There absolutely would Center said one of the shoot- gan marking themselves fundraising page for Romero Gilroy Police Chief Scot have been more blood- ing victims died at Saint as “safe” using the web- Michael Moore and the female teen victim, Smithee identified the gun- shed” if the officers had not Louise Regional Hospital site’s emergency notifica- Scott Forstner identified July 29 as Keyla man as 19-year-old Gilroyan subdued Legan when they in Gilroy. Three shooting tion feature. Jaqueline McCool Salazar, also from San Jose. Santino William Legan. did, Smithee said. victims remained at Saint “But there’s a lot we A gunman at the Gilroy Funds raised will be sent The chief said investigators The three officers who Louise in serious condition don’t know right now,” said Garlic Festival killed a to the families of both vic- did not know the suspect’s shot Legan are currently late Sunday night, while two Mark Turner, president on administrative leave other patients were trans- 6-year-old boy, a 13-year- tims, according to the page at motive, which continues to of the Gilroy Chamber of gofundme.com. be a subject of the ongoing while the police depart- ferred from the Gilroy hos- old girl and a 25-year-old Commerce. The third victim was investigation that has kept ment and Santa Clara pital to Valley Med, accord- man as the three-day food Turner said he was stand- identified later in the the park off limits to the County District Attorney’s ing to the Valley Med festival was wrapping up ing by the amphitheater day as Trevor Irby, 25, of public since Sunday night. Office investigate their use spokeswoman. for the weekend Sunday when the shots sounded, Romulus, NY, who was vis- After initial reports of their firearms in the In addition, five gun- night, July 28, according and he took off running—in iting the festival with his suggesting a second sus- line of duty, Smithee said shot victims, ranging in to police. the opposite direction of the girlfriend from California, pect prompted an exten- July 30. The chief has not condition from critical fleeing crowds. “I thought The youngest victim was who was not injured. sive manhunt along Uvas named the three officers, to fair, were transported my wife and daughter Stephen Romero of San Jose, Twelve other peo- Creek and in several but said all are veterans of directly to Valley Med whose father posted a link ple suffered gunshot neighborhoods Sunday the local department. from the scene. ➝ Gilroy Shooting, 8 REPLACE YOUR OLD FLAME WITH A NEW FLAME. Milgard Trinsic® Series Vinyl Windows & Doors. Maximum views with contemporary style. If you’veMilgard been looking for aTrinsic® contemporary vinyl window, Series the new Trinsic Series is for you. With the maximum available viewable glass area you’ll enjoy Vinyl amazing views Windows outside. Plus, it features a& full lifetimeDoors warranty for added peace-of-mind. Available from South Valley Windows, 315 First Street,Maximum Gilroy, CA. 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