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		</div><p>A suspect has been killed after opening fire at a food festival in California, police said.</p>
<p>Three people were killed and at least 15 others injured after the shooting that sent panicked people running at the annual food festival in Gilroy.</p>
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<p>The shooter used a rifle and gained entry to the packed festival by cutting through a fence to avoid the tight security, including metal detectors, police said.</p>
<p>Some witnesses reported a second suspect, Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said, but it was unclear whether that person opened fire.</p>
<figure id="attachment_137274" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-137274" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-full wp-image-137274" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/558FA364-16AE-48F7-9BE7-16F59D50BFBA.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="491" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-137274" class="wp-caption-text">People at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California following a mass shooting</figcaption></figure>
<p>Mr Smithee said the suspects had used a tool to cut through a fence to get into the annual garlic festival in Gilroy, California.</p>
<p>He said one of the suspects opened fire and police and officers in the area confronted the suspect in less than a minute.</p>
<p>Mr Smithee said that suspect was shot and killed.</p>
<p>Witnesses reported confusion and panic as shots rang out at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in the city of 50,000 located about 80 miles south-east of San Francisco.</p>
<p>The shooting occurred during the three-day celebration featuring food, cooking competitions and music that attracts more than 100,000 people.</p>
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<p>Sunday was the final day of this year’s event.</p>
<p>The band Tin Man was just starting an encore when shots rang out.</p>
<p>Singer Jack van Breen said he saw a man wearing a green shirt and greyish handkerchief around his neck fire into the food area with what looked like an assault rifle.</p>
<figure id="attachment_137276" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-137276" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-full wp-image-137276" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/E7982EBE-7CE9-4950-A40F-455CB457564A.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="434" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-137276" class="wp-caption-text">Police stand guard outside Gilroy High School</figcaption></figure>
<p>Mr Van Breen and other members of the band dove under the stage.</p>
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<p>He said he heard someone shout: “Why are you doing this?” and the reply: “Because I’m really angry.”</p>
<p>His bandmate Vlad Malinovsky, from Walnut Creek, California, said he heard a lot of shots and then it stopped.</p>
<p>Later, law enforcement came by and told the band members and others hiding with them to come out with their hands up.</p>
<p>Stanford Medical Centre has two patients being treated from the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, spokeswoman Julie Greicius said.</p>
<p>She had no details on their injuries or conditions.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The hearts of Gilroy PD and entire community go out to the victims of today&#39;s shooting at the Garlic Festival. The scene is still active. If you are looking for a loved one, please go to the reunification center at Gavilan College at parking lot B. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GilroyActiveshooter?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GilroyActiveshooter</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Gilroy Police (@GilroyPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/GilroyPD/status/1155664763436724224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Santa Clara Valley Medical Centre received five victims, spokeswoman Joy Alexiou said.</p>
<p>She also had no information on their conditions.</p>
<p>Evenny Reyes of Gilroy, 13, told the Mercury News that she spent the day at the festival with her friends and relatives.</p>
<p>“We were just leaving and we saw a guy with a bandanna wrapped around his leg because he got shot. And there were people on the ground, crying,” she said.</p>
<p>“There was a little kid hurt on the ground.</p>
<p>“People were throwing tables and cutting fences to get out.”</p>
<p>She said that she did not run at first because the gunshots sounded like fireworks.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Law Enforcement is at the scene of shootings in Gilroy, California. Reports are that shooter has not yet been apprehended. Be careful and safe!</p>
<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155676540631506944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“It started going for five minutes, maybe three. It was like the movies – everyone was crying, people were screaming,” she said.</p>
<p>Todd Jones, a sound engineer, told the newspaper that he was at the front of the festival’s Vineyard stage when he heard what sounded like a firework.</p>
<p>“But then it started to increase, more rapidly, which sounded more like gunfire, and at that point people realised what was happening,” Mr Jones said.</p>
<p>Natalie Martinez, a Gilroy Resident, told the Mercury News that she had gone to get food and separated from her two daughters.</p>
<p>“I ran to find the girls and we basically ran into each other.</p>
<p>“I thought, We’re open prey. It was awful,” she said.</p>
<p>Video first posted on social media sites about 5.30pm local time showed people running for safety at the festival.</p>
<p>Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives responded to the scene of the shooting.</p>
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<p>The Gilroy Police Department on its Twitter account issued a statement saying: “The hearts of Gilroy PD and entire community go out to the victims of today’s shooting at the Garlic Festival. The scene is still active. If you are looking for a loved one, please go to the reunification centre at Gavilan College at parking lot B.”</p>
<p>President Donald Trump tweeted about the shooting, asking people to “be careful and safe!”</p>
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