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THE ASTORIAN • TuESdAy, July 30, 2019
Gunman kills 3 at California festival
By KATHLEEN
RONAYNE
Associated Press
GILROY,
Calif.
—
Authorities were searching
for answers Monday to why
a 19-year-old opened fire on
a popular food festival less
than a mile from his par-
ents’ home in California, kill-
ing two children and another
young man.
They believe many more
people would have died if
officers patrolling the event
had not stopped the gunman
so quickly.
Santino William Legan,
19, cut through a fence and
appeared to randomly target
people Sunday afternoon, the
end of the three-day Gilroy
Garlic Festival that attracts
about 100,000 people to the
city known as the “Garlic
Capital of the World,” Gilroy
Police Chief Scot Smithee
said.
Police responded in less
than a minute, and Legan
turned what appeared to be
an AK-47 style rifle on them,
Smithee said. Three offi-
cers fired back and killed
Legan, who legally pur-
chased the weapon this
month in Nevada, where his
last address is listed.
“I can’t tell you how
proud I am of the officers
who were able to engage this
guy as quickly as they did,”
the police chief said. “We had
thousands of people there. It
could have gone so much
worse so fast. ... There abso-
lutely would have been more
bloodshed.”
Legan’s motive wasn’t
known, Smithee said. Legan
posted two photos on Ins-
tagram not long before the
attack that injured 12 other
people.
One photo depicted
Smokey Bear in front of a
“fire danger” sign, with a
caption that said to read the
19th century book “Might is
Right,” a work that claims
race determines behavior
and is popular among white
nationalists and far-right
extremist groups.
Stepping up feud, Trump
assails Cummings as ‘racist’
By ZEKE MILLER
and HOPE YEN
Associated Press
AP Photo/Noah Berger
Police escort people from Christmas Hill Park following a deadly shooting during the Gilroy
Garlic Festival.
‘I CAN’T TEll yOu HOW PROud I
AM OF THE OFFICERS WHO WERE
ABlE TO ENGAGE THIS Guy AS
QuICKly AS THEy dId. WE HAd
THOuSANdS OF PEOPlE THERE.
IT COuld HAVE GONE SO MuCH
WORSE SO FAST. ... THERE
ABSOluTEly WOuld HAVE
BEEN MORE BlOOdSHEd.’
Scot Smithee | Gilroy police chief
Legan’s
since-deleted
Instagram account says he
is Italian and Iranian. Min-
utes before the shooting, he
had posted a photo from the
festival saying, “Ayyy gar-
lic festival time” and “come
get wasted on overpriced
(stuff).”
The festival in the agri-
cultural city of 50,000 about
80 miles southeast of San
Francisco had security that
required people to pass
through metal detectors and
have their bags searched.
The shooter sneaked in
through a fence that borders
a parking lot next to a creek,
Smithee said, and the gunfire
sent panicked people running
away and diving for cover
under tables and a concert
stage.
Some witnesses reported a
second suspect, Smithee said,
but it was unclear whether
that person was armed or just
helped in some way. A man-
hunt stretched into Monday.
The
shooting
killed
6-year-old Stephen Romero,
a 13-year-old girl and recent
college graduate Trevor Irby,
who was in his 20s, authori-
ties and family said.
“My son had his whole
life to live, and he was only
6,” Alberto Romero told San
Francisco Bay Area news sta-
tion KNTV. “That’s all I can
say.”
The boy’s grandmother,
Maribel Romero, told Los
Angeles station KABC-TV
that she searched several hos-
pitals before learning he had
died. She said Stephen was
“always kind, happy and, you
know, playful.”
Keuka College said Irby
was a biology major who
graduated in 2017 from the
school in upstate New York.
Officials didn’t release the
name of the girl who died.
The wounded were taken to
multiple hospitals, and their
conditions ranged from fair
to critical, with some under-
going surgery. At least five
have been released.
Police searched the two-
story home of Legan’s fam-
ily less than a mile from the
garlic festival and a dusty car
parked outside before leaving
the house Monday with paper
bags and what appeared to be
other evidence.
Jan Dickson, a neighbor
across the street, said Santino
Legan had not lived there for
at least a year and that SWAT
officers came to the home
Sunday night. She called
the Legans “a nice, normal
family.”
WASHINGTON — Fac-
ing growing accusations
of racism for his incendi-
ary tweets, President Don-
ald Trump lashed out at his
critics Monday and sought
to deflect the criticism by
labeling a leading black
congressman as himself
racist.
In the latest rhetorical
shot at lawmakers of color,
Trump said his weekend
comments referring to Rep.
Elijah Cummings’ major-
ity-black Baltimore dis-
trict as a “disgusting, rat
and rodent infested mess”
where “no human being
would want to live” were
not racist.
Instead, Trump argued,
“if racist Elijah Cummings
would focus more of his
energy on helping the good
people of his district, and
Baltimore itself, perhaps
progress could be made in
fixing the mess.”
“His radical ‘oversight’
is a joke!” Trump tweeted
Sunday.
After a weekend of
attacks on Cummings, the
son of former sharecrop-
pers who rose to become
the powerful chairman of
the House Oversight and
Reform Committee, Trump
expanded his attacks Mon-
day to include a promi-
nent Cummings defender,
the Rev. Al Sharpton, who
held a press conference in
Baltimore to condemn the
president.
“Al is a con man, a trou-
blemaker, always looking
for a score,” Trump tweeted
ahead of the press confer-
ence, adding that the civil
rights activist and MSNBC
host “Hates Whites &
Cops!”
Sharpton fired back at
the president in a tweet of
his own, saying, “I do make
trouble for bigots.”
Cummings is leading
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Elijah Cummings
multiple investigations of
the president’s governmen-
tal dealings. In his direct
response to Trump on Twit-
ter, Cummings said: “Mr.
President, I go home to my
district daily. Each morning,
I wake up, and I go and fight
for my neighbors. It is my
constitutional duty to con-
duct oversight of the Exec-
utive Branch. But, it is my
moral duty to fight for my
constituents.”
Cummings has also
drawn the president’s ire
for investigations touch-
ing on his family members
serving in the White House.
His committee voted along
party lines Thursday to
authorize subpoenas for per-
sonal emails and texts used
for official business by top
White House aides, includ-
ing Ivanka Trump and her
husband, Jared Kushner.
Meanwhile, Trump con-
vened a group of “wonder-
ful Inner City Pastors” for
an unannounced closed-
door meeting to discuss the
issues facing the black com-
munity Monday.
“This country needs
healing. There’s so much
division in America along
racial lines,” said Bill
Owens, president of the
Coalition of African Amer-
ican Pastors, who said he
was among about 20 pas-
tors who had met with the
president.
“He wanted to know
from us: What should he
do in America? What best
can he do?” Owens said of
Trump, insisting the gath-
ering “was not damage
control.”
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