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Police seek motive for shooting at California garlic festival
Reuters ^ | 07-30-19 | Alexandria Sage

Posted on 07/30/2019 9:40:30 AM PDT by Steve1999

GILROY, Calif. (Reuters) - Police continued on Tuesday to look into what motivated a teenager to shoot visitors attending a popular California food festival over the weekend, killing three people, including a 6-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl.Santino William Legan, 19, cut through a fence at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday and shot people, seemingly at random, with an assault-style rifle, according to the Gilroy police department. Police officers on the scene fatally shot the gunman within about a minute of him opening fire. Police had obtained search warrants for a home in Gilroy associated with the suspect and a car they believe he drove to the festival, a decades-old annual event celebrating the produce farmed in the countryside south of San Jose.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bot; california; garlicfestival; gilroy; nra; santinowilliamlegan; secondamendment
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To: Neidermeyer

What is supposed to happen on Friday?
I hope you don’t mean a public release of certain files.
That ‘upcoming’ event has been dragged out quite some time.


21 posted on 07/30/2019 10:00:07 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Steve1999

Obviously he was a vampire


22 posted on 07/30/2019 10:02:01 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Steve1999; All
”… cut through a fence at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday and shot people,"

Budget fence was evidently relied on more as a psychological deterrent, insights welcome.

Same problem with neglected parts of the southern border wall, although PDJT is making real progress in fighting worthless Congress to fix border wall.

23 posted on 07/30/2019 10:05:01 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Steely Tom

Sure they can make it up - but his internet history (already archived) doesn’t say that. So it’s be blatant that they were making it up.

Now in New Zealand they HAVE been making it up - but they’re getting little push back there.


24 posted on 07/30/2019 10:07:46 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Amendment10

Security theater.


25 posted on 07/30/2019 10:08:16 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Steve1999

He was crazy, out of his tree, a loon, off the farm, lost in la la land, three sheets to the wind, out of his frick’n mind, his elevator didn’t reach the top, missing a few marbles, all.the lights were on but nobody home, a few flapjacks short of a stack, not playing with all the pieces, he went rouge, His tinfold hat got struck by lightening, he had a pole up his ass, a chip on his shoulder, a bad attitude, he ate too many crayons, sniffing too many permenant markers, sniffing glue, paint, madder than a hatter. .. that about covers it.


26 posted on 07/30/2019 10:12:08 AM PDT by Ikeon (Are you going to flap your lips until I die of boredom or are you gonna shoot me?)
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To: Steve1999

They don’t really want to know. That would be too nonPC.


27 posted on 07/30/2019 10:15:36 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: Steve1999

Muzzie hatred - he said so himself who’s a muzzie.


28 posted on 07/30/2019 10:17:06 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: treetopsandroofs

“second suspect”

That could have just been an erroneous report that made its way into the story early. Often those errors are simply dropped from the story line with no explanation.

Or, it could be that the kid was a well intentioned CC holder shooting at the real murderer (2nd suspect) who was actually an FBI agent. The cops see the kid first and take him out. Laughing at his good fortune, the FBI guy makes his escape.


29 posted on 07/30/2019 10:17:28 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Steve1999

You don’t think it could have anything to do with going all jihad on infidels?


30 posted on 07/30/2019 10:19:35 AM PDT by bgill
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To: lee martell

Friday is the “usual” day to dominate the weekend news cycle.. that’s all. However I think it’s equally possible there will be no event as the mockingbird media will not report any declass that might occur.... therefore nothing to bury.


31 posted on 07/30/2019 10:23:41 AM PDT by Neidermeyer (There's a Tesla owner born every minute.)
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To: semaj

“Exactly. What’s not being reported speaks volumes.”

Who was helping him? Are they already back at Langley?


32 posted on 07/30/2019 10:24:32 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: Steve1999

Motive? How about “evil?”


33 posted on 07/30/2019 10:24:35 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Steve1999

Islam was the motive.


34 posted on 07/30/2019 10:25:26 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: Amendment10
Budget fence was evidently relied on more as a psychological deterrent, insights welcome.

This park is not set up for this type of event except once per year. Normally it's a place to go for a family picnic or set up a volleyball net. Grassy with sycamore trees.
For Garlic Festival, they surround the place with rented chain link fence panels (maybe 8 feet square?) chained together. Entrants are funneled through a quick pass through the metal detector.
Plenty of cops there. I worked at least once as Mounted Sheriff Posse (non-LEO) riding the inside perimeter to report potential problems and provide a visible presence.
Any bolt cutter can get through the chain link. Then this guy had to find a quiet corner where he wouldn't be seen cutting the fence... not hard as the park borders wild areas in the back.

35 posted on 07/30/2019 10:26:19 AM PDT by Rio
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To: GOPJ; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
Yeah, it's a real puzzle.

36 posted on 07/30/2019 10:28:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: fruser1

As often as we hear about a second suspect in these things, those really are the only two possibilities.

Our domestic enemies have been losing lately, and with their ultra-important Hatefest I tonight, really needed this.


37 posted on 07/30/2019 10:30:06 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Steve1999

Vampire, obviously


38 posted on 07/30/2019 10:34:31 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Steve1999

The fact that they are still seeking a motive, means the reason they already found is inconvenient.


39 posted on 07/30/2019 10:35:38 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Steve1999
Same reason a lot of young men are angry. They have no access to women. They are maladjusted to normal social interactions and are constantly rejected. They see guys on TV and the internet who get tons of girls, but they can't even get a textback.

I don't care what they write, what they post on social media, what they tell their friends. It's all just cover for the fact that these incels are losers who've never kissed a girl and are very angry because of it.

40 posted on 07/30/2019 10:40:51 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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