Reports: Shots fired at Gilroy Garlic Festival

Reports: Shots fired at Gilroy Garlic Festival

by Bay Area News Group

GILROY — Police are at the scene of an apparent shooting with more than one person hit at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, authorities said.

Police responded to the festival grounds at Christmas Hill Park near Miller Avenue and Uvas Park Drive around 5:30 p.m., but few details of the shooting were immediately available.

A dispatcher answering a Gilroy police line said an inquiry about the reports was ‘inappropriate’ and sent a caller to voicemail.

As of 6:40 p.m., Katherine Filice, who has headed the festival’s promotional effort for several years, said the PR team members were “all OK” but that she had no further information as the situation at Christmas Hill Park was still fluid.

The shooting occurred as the 41st annual event — one of the nation’s most famous food festivals — was wrapping up its three-day run. Besides drawing food lovers from around the country, the festival serves as Gilroy’s top fund-raiser for the year, with volunteers staffing the event to earn money for their clubs, schools and other nonprofit groups. Since 1979, the festival has raised more than $11.7 million for local nonprofits and schools.

6 pm was the closing time, but the entrance gates were to have closed one hour prior to that.

Check back for updates.

Prayers up to the people at Gilroy Garlic Festival !!

— Jenz (@renna_jondez) July 29, 2019

scariest moments of my life at the Gilroy garlic festival. I hope everyone made it out okay

— tay (@taylormadelinee) July 29, 2019

yo somebody was shooting at the gilroy garlic festival. be safe pic.twitter.com/B39ZIYe8wr

— niah ㊝ (@wavyia) July 29, 2019

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