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GILROY, Calif., July 29 (Reuters) - Police on Monday identified
a 19-year-old California man as the gunman who opened fire with
an assault rifle at a garlic festival in Gilroy, California,
killing three people and wounding about a dozen.
Santino William Legan, 19, cut through a fence at the festival
on Sunday evening and shot people, seemingly at random, with an
"AK-47-style" assault rifle, Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee
told reporters. Legan was fatally shot within about a minute by
police.
"It could have gone so much worse so fast," Smithee said, noting
that the festival, which takes place about 30 miles (48 km)
southeast of Silicon Valley, is attended by thousands of
visitors.
Police and FBI agents were trying to determine a motive for the
shooting and investigating unconfirmed reports by witnesses that
Legan may have had an accomplice.
Smithee said that search warrants had been obtained for a home
in Gilroy associated with the suspect and a car that police
believe he drove to the festival.
Legan killed a six-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and a man in
his 20s, Smithee said. Police believe Legan, who was originally
from Gilroy, purchased the rifle legally on July 9 in Nevada,
where he had recently been living.
At least 11 people were treated for wounds, a spokesman for the
Santa Clara Health System said late on Monday.
Of those shot, five remained at the Santa Clara Valley Medical
Center Monday night, he said. Three of those were in serious or
fair condition and two wished to have no information released,
he said.
Early police reports said that one person was in critical
condition on Sunday.
Another 10 people received other, non-life threatening injuries,
the hospital spokesman said, and were treated at St. Louise
Regional Hospital.
Seven of the victims ranged in age between 12 and 69, officials
said. Police had initially said that 15 people were wounded.
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