a band onstage when the shooting started. panicked people trying to seek cover, hiding wherever they could. more than a dozen people were injured and when it was over, three people were killed, including this little boy, 6-year-old stephen romero. the 19-year-old gunman was armed with an assault-style rifle. he cut through a fence to get past security and metal detectors. tonight, police are now looking at his social media posts. some of them including what authorities describe as white supremacist messaging. abc s will carr leads us off from gilroy, california, tonight. reporter: in a split second, a festival packed with families turned into a terrifying nightmare. families running for their lives with shots flying through the air. many, at first, believing those pops were fireworks exploding. but then realizing they were under attack. what [ bleep ] is going on? oh, they re shooting. reporter: victims rushed to safety. she got shot. reporter: some of those shot
a deadly and chaotic scene in wisconsin. a firefighter shot and killed by the man he was trying to help. body cam video showing the man was revived from a suspected drug overdose, arguing about going to the hospital when he suddenly pull that had gun. here s erielle reshef. reporter: tonight, newly released body camera video capturing that deadly encounter in wisconsin. whoa, whoa, whoa! [ bleep ] reporter: it started on a bus. paramedics reviving reuben houston with narcan for a suspected overdose. moments later officers repeatedly urging him to go the hospital. do you have any weapons on you? no, sir. you have a bulge on your right side. that s my phone. don t reach for anything. no, look, man, i have a problem with officers touching me. [ bleep ] whoa, whoa, whoa! [ bleep ] [ bleep ] shots fired! shots fired! reporter: in a split second, that man reaching for his gun and opening fire. houston killing firefighter mitch lundgard and injuring another officer.
he just missed. i got taken to the hospital here. they took me out and stuff like that. and i think it was like 35 stitches and two plastic surgeries, so i was furious. i wanted to get back at inmates, i wanted to kill inmates. i wanted to get them back. but i didn t. they re not worth doing time over. they re not worth losing your job over. it s not worth it. even though alejos is a veteran officer, every day at san quentin is unpredictable. his survival tactic has been never to show fear. it s like the law of the jungle, only the strong survive here. and if they see, that you re afraid, they ll eat you alive. so you never, never let your fear show, never. you have convicted felons here for murder and for rape. we got level fours here that you don t know, in a split second, a level two could be a level four and, you know, they could stab you. they could stab someone in front of you.
they took me out and stuff like that. and i think it was like 35 stitches and 2 plastic surgeries, so i was furious. i wanted to get back at inmates, i wanted to kill inmates. i wanted to get them back. but i didn t. they re not worth doing time over. they re not worth losing your job over. it s not worth it. even though alejos is a veteran officer, every day at san quentin is unpredictable. his survival tactic has been never to show fear. it s like the law of the jungle, only the strong survive here. and if they see, that you re afraid, they ll eat you alive. so you never, never let your fear show, never. you have convicted felons here for murder and for rape. we got level fours here that you don t know, in a split second, a level two could be a level four and, you know, they could stab you. they could stab someone in front
and i think it was like 35 stitches and 2 plastic surgeries, so i was furious. i wanted to get back at inmates, i wanted to kill inmates. i wanted to get them back. but i didn t. they re not worth doing time over. they re not worth losing your job over. it s not worth it. even though alejos is a veteran officer, every day at san quentin is unpredictable. his survival tactic has been never to show fear. it s like the law of the jungle, only the strong survive here. and if they see, that you re afraid, they ll eat you alive. so you never, never let your fear show, never. you have convicted felons here for murder and for rape. we got level fours here that you don t know, in a split second, a level two could be a level four and, you know, they could stab you. they could stab someone in front of you. and you respond to help them and, guess what, you get stabbed