Shooting in the United States: a man opened fire at a music and cooking festival and killed three people

GILROY.- Yesterday afternoon
an armed man opened fire at the popular Gilroy Garlic Festival, in northern California and the western United States, killing three people
and injured at least 15 before the police kill him and helpers and musicians escape in terror.

The attacker, armed with a rifle and entered illegally through a fence overlooking the parking lot, seemed to draw at random.
when the attack started shortly after 5:30 pm yesterdayat the end of a three-day show that attracts more than 100,000 people.

As Chief of Police Scot Smithee said,
The agents reacted in a minute,
They faced the suspect and killed him. The scene at the festival was "a nightmare that we hope to never live," he added.

According to several witnesses, the band Tin Man had just started concerts of their concert when the shooting began. The singer, Jack van Breen, said he saw a man dressed in a green shirt and a gray scarf in the neck pulling at the food stand with what looked like an badault rifle . Then the audience started shouting and running, while the band members protected themselves under the stage. The singer, originally from Santa Clara, said she heard someone yell "Why are you doing this?" and that the answer was "Because I am very angry".

For their part, the wounded have been transferred to several hospitals and their condition varies from mild to severe. Some were operated at night and at least five were treated and discharged.

The Gilroy Garlic Festival includes meals, cooking contests and music. It is a rendezvous with decades of tradition in the farming town of 50,000, located 176 kilometers southeast of San Francisco. It's usually a quiet holiday for families. There is a lot of security, with metal detectors and bag recordings at the entrance.

Horror testimonials

Evenny Reyes, Gilroy, 13, told the newspaper
Mercury news He had spent the day at the festival with his friends and family. "
We were leaving and we saw a man with a bandanna tied around his leg because he had been shot. And there were people on the ground crying. There was also a wounded boy on the floor. People turned the tables and broke the fences to get out".

Reyes also said that at first he had not run because the shots looked like a fireworks display. "It started for five minutes, maybe three, it was like in movies … everybody was crying, people screaming."

Julissa Contreras, who identified the abuser as a white man in her 30s, also attended the events. "I could see him shooting in all directions, he was not targeting anyone in particular, he was just going from left to right and from right to left," he said.

California Governor Gavin Newsom described in a tweet the event as "nothing short of scary" and praised the work of the police. In this line, President Donald Trump has published in the networks "Be careful and be safe!", before the authorities confirmed the death of the aggressor.

Filming is common in the United States, Despite the magnitude of the problems badociated with gun violence, little effort has been made to address this problem through federal legislation. Although a large part of the population wants to ban the sale of weapons, it is not willing to take this step in another area.

AP and AFP agencies