The Shooter Suspect at the Garlic Festival in California Was an Open White Supremacist

BLACK LIVES MATTER founder and Activist Shaun King posted on Faceboonk: “Yep. The California shooter yesterday was another open white supremacist. His last posts yesterday on social media were of famous white supremacist texts. He went and purchased an AK-47 in Las Vegas legally then went right back to the festival to cause mass carnage with a weapon of war that was designed to do just that. Insecure, toxic white men are, and always have been, the greatest threat to the safety and security of this nation.”

Authorities identified the suspect as 19-year-old Santino William Legan.

Among those murdered was 6-year-old boy Steven Romero, 6, reported Towleroad had just celebrated his birthday, his father Alberto told NBC Bay Area:“There’s nothing I really can do besides try to be with him until I can put him in his resting spot, wherever that is. My son had his whole life to live and he was only six. That’s all I can say.”

NBC News added: “In total, three people were killed and 15 injured in the shooting, authorities said. Police also shot and killed a suspect who was carrying an assault-type rifle, according to a statement by the City of Gilroy. Police believe a second person may have been involved. The shooter entered the packed festival by cutting through a fence, police said. The festival had tight security, including metal detectors.”

The San Francisco Chronicle reported:

The sleepy town of Gilroy was reeling Monday in the aftermath of a mass shooting at its famed garlic festival, where three young people — a 6-year-old boy, a teenage girl and a recent college graduate — were killed by an assailant identified as a man who grew up in the area.

Police said the shooter was 19-year-old Santino William Legan, who came from a longtime, well-known South Bay family. Legan fired an assault rifle into the crowds Sunday evening near the festival food court, police said, injuring a dozen people in addition to the three who died, before police shot and killed him.

Law enforcement officials and witnesses said the number of casualties could have been tenfold greater if the gunman had not been subdued by three responding officers a minute after the shooting began. The Gilroy Garlic Festival is the area’s most famous event and draws enormous crowds — around 100,000 over three days, almost double the population of the city of Gilroy.

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