Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting
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On July 28, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. The gunman killed three people and wounded 17 others before killing himself after a shootout with responding police officers.[4][5]
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Location | Gilroy, California, U.S. |
Coordinates | 36°59′52″N 121°35′7″W |
Date | July 28, 2019 (2019-07-28) 5:40 – 5:45 p.m.[1] (PDT (UTC−7)) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, murder–suicide |
Weapons | WASR-10 AK-47-style semi-automatic rifle[2] |
Deaths | 4 (including the perpetrator)[3] |
Injured | 19 (11 by gunfire)[4] |
Perpetrator | Santino William Legan[3] |
Motive | Unknown |
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As of 2020[update], investigators had not determined the motives of the gunman, identified as 19-year-old Santino William Legan. The FBI opened a domestic terrorism investigation into the incident.[6]