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Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 News At 6am 20240714

Hand and in the stomach but she is expected to make a recovery and as you would expect the shooting prompted a massive response from not only Gilroy Police but a number of other agencies as well and theres an army of a officials right now. At the gilroy garlic festival which is a crime scene. Theyre continuing to search because they think they think that this gunman may have had help yeah and so weve heard already from the police chief scott smith, he came out last night spoke to the media. Heres a portion of what he said about what we knew about the shooter at that point. In killed. It appears as if though they had into the festival the uh the creek which borders. They use some sort of a tool to cut through the fence to be able to gain access to the secure fence line. And thats how they got into the festival area itself. All accounts are that it was an automatic weapon and weve heard video from witnesses and you can hear the pop pop pop in rapid succession. The question is you know it was very chaotic. Did people see that one gunmen were there 2 gunmen what did he have help and that is why theyre continuing the search this morning for a second person were waiting were just a few hours away from the News Conference that will carry hopefully we get more details about that because they are still investigating and finding things out this morning absolutely and for more from the scene the actual festival site itself we want to go to kron fours will tran hes standing by. With more on exactly whats happening now that the sun is coming up, well we can get a better view of the scene behind you. Let me give you the lay of the land before i show you whats in behind me let me show you whats in front of me you leave you can move the camera this is an active crime scene with more investigators arriving to the scene by the minute. You can see that car door opening i saw about 5 cars with their headlights on park there as they will get out and they will go into the park around this is an active crime scene. What have been have there only been one shooter. But they believe as you guys talked about a possible second person which is why theyre treating this as an active scene to collect evidence and to look at the park grounds to see if they can get any evidence that might be able to track them down i tracked down i should say the second person involved in this they have to assume that there is which is why more people not fewer people but more people are arriving to the scene ill step out of the way and let me show you theres an ambulance finally leaving this area this ambulance was parked in the overnight hours. This is basically one of 2 entrances to the festival but hadnt been here many times this is pretty much the main entrance. Yes, there were metal detectors at the seniors, so they can you havfor weapons. Th is on the left side screen you see all those cars over their part thats just below it thats where the creek is so if you listen to investigators this person use a bolt cutter some kind of tool to go through that area and then go through the fencing area will zoom in and see the fencing area through here to prevent people from going through in 41 years they never had a problem until yesterday at 00 41pm in the afternoon the evening. When shots rang out heres video from witnesses who were there. Everybody was having a great time this is the festival in gilroy in fact in pretty much the bay areas first outdoor activity. So many people from the bay area across the country they come to this festival. To shots at first. Many vendors when all of a sudden people were confused. They didnt know that was back fire fireworks but after hearing a whole bunch of shots they knew without a doubt to run for their lives. Many people jumped into vendors booths to high they ran behind bushs they did all that they could unfortunately there are those who could not get out of the way including that 6 yearold boy that you were talking about plenty of witnesses at the scene and investigators will try to track them down to get their statements as to exactly what happened. We were here we tracked down the investigators as well. Heres what some of them had to say about the mass shooting. You know you think wed screamed and if we were to screen he would attorney shot this that the maligned were street lined up with him. So we just ran you know him as lotus gun and start shooting in going straight for 10 so. Yeah, it was just like so in real we still have a process and all you know we just left a tip that he shot 2 people in 2 seconds with 2 minutes before that to go the bathroom and he was like 15 feet away from us when he was loading his gun and started shooting randomly you know. Witnesses could not believe what they heard what they saw they all ran out as quickly as they possibly could as far as we know this morning at least 15 people were injured. We dont know exactly the conditions this morning. Hopefully the number of killed remains at 3 and does not go up, but theres always that possibility as far as the gunmen, his name has not been released to the ,ublic at this time we do know that he was carrying an Assault Rifle. This is an area see that sign this as speed limit 35 Miles Per Hour havent been here multiple times. That line stretches from the entrance was just basically a below their word dips to the ground. You see thousands of people all lined up here and ive seen them smiling is a great time to be had because there are metal detectors and the slow going through here thats why the line is backed up all the way to the intersection and this gunman obviously knew that there were metal detectors which is why they use star. This person news bolt cutters to get through or some sort of tool to get through. Its member i talked about more people are showing up as i look up i can see this look at this. Another basically infantry platoon you might want to call it fbi members showing up to the scene as well so they are coming here, theyre getting help from nearby Police Departments and as you can clearly see National Agencies all the help that they can get and to tap into their expertise back to you. All right, thanks the how much will now weve got a couple maps to show you want a wider view and then one more closely in view of the areas you can kind of get a lay of the land is the wider view. It shows the garlic Festival Grounds right there in the center of the screen deal right high school to the right and then in the upper left you see the developed uvas creek reservoir or preserve i mean that is where police sink if there is a second person perhaps that second person headed in that direction and thats why theyre searching that location as well just try to track down and verify and confirm if there was a second person involved and theyre also obviously searching outside of the grounds because they want to see if there are any other clues did he leave a bag somewhere. As you were saying james, what is there a getaway car right where did where would did he come from exactly get to that sensing and then you can explain exactly where the fencing is that he cut through so this is a screen of the actual fairgrounds map. For this years festival of the very top of the screen to see that cow train. Icon thats where will the station thats the main gates coming in and use all looking down that shot from his Vantage Point you can see the creek there in the foreground and the fencing surrounds the edge of that creek that goes all along the right side of your screen following the water all the way down to the bottom left in the bottom left corner bottom right corner. I mean you see the amphitheater and thats the stage area where weve heard reports from band members were performing at the time that they met they play locked in eyes on the shooter, so they think that he came and somewhere that campus year. The band tin man was just doing their encore when they heard the shots and the best information we have is from the singer jags and green who said that he actually saw the gunman and he died he dove under the stage and that he heard someone show why are you doing this and that the gunman said because im really angry then and again this only lasted about a minute. But the gunman was able to continue on from that location in the corner of your screen and she died or if we can bring that up one more time i just want to point out where the tents are located because we heard witnesses reporting that he was shooting in the area of the 10s right actually just right near the at the theaters that role of white tents. Theyre okay where people were you know some vendors were selling them at rest area which uses about a baseballsized feel right you guys will field size and theres lots of activities for kids is a rock wall theres a. You know a lot of different booths there and so families were congregated in that area just to the right as you can see of gourmet alley so we have heard witnesses who are in the 10s who are in the amphitheater and those who are all long gourmet alley kron 4 Sarah Stinson is live at the killer and Police Department which is also piecing together. All of what the witnesses say, and theyre cell phone video this morning, sarah. Yeah theres a lot for investigators to go through including that video youre talking about witnesses statements and then and of course their own experiences as they. Came on to the scene. All right so we just lost the video you can credible response that there was weve also had the audi a dispatch where we heard them calling out to get help to the scene interwoven with those who were you know screaming for help in fact theyre even a pickup trucks and people that are seen helping other people as they try to get them to the hospital lets listen to some of what was going on live as it happened. Yeah and you can just hear the frantic, you know sounds of those voices in the recordings we want to show you more of those moments too as these. First shots rang out theres the garlic festival. Heres another clip. Take a quick listen. Indeed who would do such a thing he was killed by the police and just one moment after he opened fire killing 3 people including a 6 yearold boy and there are more witnesses describing how the families were just running for their lives. We went back to shooting started weve been lucky that we were their power to almost 6 oclock and we all look back went crazy and then we heard. When we got on the ground in shooting that close my knees just told me one of ladies who escalating the next to the head guy shot we had we could my 100 kids on the ground. The Thai Government or a friar second dinner in the shooting started. And he was an army veteran and he talked about it you can you imagine the a little kids having to deal with th r people scene in hospital. And we algesoer Holding Hands conducting a prayer circle. Obviously sending their thoughts and prayers to the people who have been impacted by this mass shooting. And the big question this morning is why and how the shooter was able to do what he did we actually heard from a counterterrorism expert talking a bit about that take a listen. Tells me obviously youve got some premeditation here somebody didnt decide that morning to go out to the festival a fake if theyve gone to the effort to find a way into the facility in um ive asked youve got some premeditation here in terms of a 6 yearold i mean in the business on from that is the counterterrorism business one of the questions you have his motive, whether theres political motive, you look at this here and youve got to wonder whether this is just some local issue random act of sort of tragic violence were going to go to motive very quickly, im sure the police already have some ideas. But boy a 6 yearold tells you that were dealing with somebody who had some severe mental issues. There are calls immediately after this uh for a gun control. We have heard politicians speak out this morning and we want to show you some of what they had to say here is the quote from Vice President joe biden running for president right now this violence is not normal. How many more families will have to lose a loved one before we fix our broken gun laws we must take action starting with real reform. Our thoughts are with everyone in gilroy this evening and is enough. And weve also heard from california senator and president ial hopeful kamala harris, speaking similarly saying quote simply horrific im grateful to the First Responders who are on the scene in gilroy and my thoughts are with the community tonight. Our country has a gun violence epidemic that we cannot tolerate kron 4 is doing continuous Team Coverage of this story it is. The most important story happening in the bay area and thats why we are going wall to wall with it well continue with updates were monitoring a live from gilroy when that press conference is going to start from the police its effect expected to have around 10 oclock this morning as usual. We will continue live coverage on air and on kron 4 dot com. And as we head to break this morning will be back with more coverage but here is a look at some of the images. Additional images that have come into our newsroom since the shooting broke out well be right back. Ibigger, tastier strips spicy chof juicy chickenbo. With crunchy batter. Spice them up with hot sauce or cool them down with buttermilk ranch. Try my 100 allwhite meat spicy chicken strips combo today. Only at jack in the box. If you have moderate to thsevere rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. Ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion. 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Guys and yeah if youre going outside to get to work this morning, youre noticing skies on the greater side of things definitely some low lying cloud cover that is filtering in not just across the. A core the bay area but really for most of us today, so you can expect to hold on to this. A great start to the day such as youre seeing from for a few more hours before sunshine does eventually return on into the afternoon today, 50s and 60s are your current temperatures with concord at 61 degrees oakland in hayward right at 60 San Francisco, san mateo in berkeley right around 56 to 57 degrees. These numbers cooler than yesterday, especially down in san jose in Mountain View down 7 to 9 degrees from 24 hours ago thats something thats going to continue on into the afternoon. We traded in those triple digits and those 90s for some 6070s and 80s out the warmest for this monday. So some really pleasant weather. Robin. All right, thank you l your c taking a look at 92 the trip across the 70 oh bridge looking pretty good right. No big problems of just the morning commute filling in this is completely normal were at 17 minutes to make it for 8. 80 over to one o one were also checking the bay bridge traffic 80 wesson to San Francisco. Your cash lanes and fast track lanes are quite slow. But if you plan on car pooling those lanes are wide open as usual. So well put it at 15 minutes, not bad at all to make your way into San Francisco. Checking in on the Richmond Center fell the last time we looked at it we didnt have much of a back up now. Its packed here at the tolls but only 11 minutes to make it to the north bay hot spot free with the drive times on the rise for highway 4 6 80 and the nimitz would want to one still at the limit heading north 29 minutes, san jose to menlo park back to you. Robin and at 6. 19 will continue re in just a moment of the shooting at the go red garlic festival that is killed 3 people and sent upwards of 15 to the hospital 22 say, heres what we know at this hour about the mass shooting in gilroy of the garlic festival. The shots were fired at 5. 41 by a guy who cut the wire by a fence the festival and just started randomly shooting people killing 3 people including that little 6 yearold boy that you see here before the police were able to shoot and kill the gunman. That child Steven Romero is being remembered this morning his mother was also shot and injured shes being treated at the hospital. She is expected to survive, but now in the wake of all of this we have a massive manhunt under way looking for a possible second person involved thats what some witnesses told police and so other tracking down those leads see if that verifies out or not police asking for anybody who may have witnessed what happened shot still pictures may be shot video of what happened to please give them a call theres the number on the bottom of the right Information Panel theyre asking to call for a wait 8, 4, 6, 0, 5, 8, 3, let them know that you have video. But honestly you can call your local Police Department doesnt matter they will route you to the right person suggest call 911 and tell them that you have video or photos of what happened and theyll put you in touch with the investigators there are still a ton of investigators right now this morning on the scene as well as a big line of cars that were deserted. By people who for hours were looking for each other trying to reunite with their families up kron fours michelle kingston with that part of the story as families were being reunited. This parking lot is being used as the reunification center, its also where a lot of the media had to gather and we spoke to people who were at the garlic festival who came here to meet back up with friends and family. They tell us that they saw the shooter they heard the gunshots and that it was absolutely terrifying. Anything or anybody can more kids and her sisters say the s where they nly ab

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