Four People Confirmed DEAD Including A 6 Year Old Boy After Gunman Opens Fire During Garlic Festival [PHOTOS]

Four People Confirmed DEAD Including A 6 Year Old Boy After Gunman Opens Fire During Garlic Festival [PHOTOS]

A mass shooting at a food festival has left at least four dead and 15 people injured in northern California.

Witnesses described mass panic as the gunman – who police confirmed is also dead – opened fire at the garlic festival in Gilroy city.

The first victim of the shooting to be identified was Steven Romero who was just six. Evenny Reyes of Gilroy, 13, who spent the day at the festival with her friends and relatives, said:

‘We were just leaving and we saw a guy with a bandana wrapped around his leg because he got shot. And there were people on the ground, crying.

‘There was a little kid hurt on the ground. People were throwing tables and cutting fences to get out.’

She said that she did not run at first because the gunshots sounded like fireworks.

She added:

‘It started going for five minutes, maybe three. It was like the movies – everyone was crying, people were screaming.’

The shooting occurred during the annual garlic festival, a three-day celebration featuring food, cooking competitions and music that attracts more than 100,000 people. Sunday was the final day of this year’s event.

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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.

‘But then it started to increase, more rapidly, which sounded more like gunfire, and at that point people realised what was happening,’ he said.