TIL Desk/World/Washington/ An active shooter was reported at a food festival in California and a police spokesman said there were casualties. Few other details were immediately available. NBC Bay Area reported that ambulance crews were told 11 people were down after shots rang out on the last day of the Gilroy Garlic Festival, an annual three-day event south of San Jose.
Videos posted on social media appeared to show festival attendees scattering in confusion as at least one loud popping sound could be heard in the background. Whats going on? a woman can be heard asking on one video. Whod shoot up a garlic festival? California Senator Kamala Harris just tweeted about the shooting and thanked first responders.
In a second tweet from her campaign account, she called the shooting simply horrific.” “Our country has a gun violence epidemic that we cannot tolerate,” she added. US President Trump also just tweeted about the shooting at the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. He urged people to “be careful and safe.”
