Santino William Legan, 19, has been identified by CBS News as the suspect in the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. The shooting Sunday night on the final day of the annual event at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy left three dead, 15 injured and the suspected shooter, Legan, killed by police. Several others were injured in the chaos after shots were fired, but were not shot, authorities said.
The dead include 6-year-old Stephen Romero.
A second suspect was still on the run. Police remained at the scene of the shooting Sunday night into Monday investigating. A motive for the shooting has not yet been made public.
The shooting happened at the park near Miller Avenue and Uvas Park Drive about 5:40 p.m. local time. The festival was set to end about 6 p.m.
One witness who told reporters they’d come face to face with the gunman and asked why he was doing this was told, “Because I’m really angry.”
Here’s what you need to know about the suspect and the shooting:
1. Legan, Who Identifies as Being of Italian & Iranian Descent, Posted on Instagram Before the Shooting. The Account Was Removed But Heavy Obtained Screenshots
Legan has an Instagram page with just three posts. The one most disturbing appears to have been posted shortly before the shooting.
“Ayyy garlic festival time. Come get wasted on overpriced shit.”
According to the book Modern Satanism: Anatomy of a Subculture, Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard was authored under a pseudonym. It is purported to expand on Friedrich Nietzsche’s “theories of master–slave morality and herd mentality …”
The book is described as being akin to Social Darwinism and includes misogynistic and racist principles “claiming that the woman and the family as a whole is the property of the man and proclaiming the innate superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race. The book also contains many strong anti-Semitic statements.”
2. Legan’s Grandfather Tom Legan, a West Point Graduate, Was the Santa Clara County Supervisor. He Was Accused & Acquitted of Sexually Assaulting His Daughter. Legan’s Brother Rosino is a Noted Boxer
Heavy law enforcement presence in this Gilroy neighborhood right now. While unconfirmed by police, we got a tip someone here may somehow be connected to the #GilroyGarlicFestival shooting. Gilroy PD and ATF out here going in and out of this house. @KTVU
Legan’s brother is a noted local amateur boxer who was profiled in a 2017 story about his mission to help see tuition costs lowered, and also for his talent in the ring.
On his LinkedIn page he says, “I am a San Jose PAL boxer with more than 65 fights. I also earned a Communication degree at Santa Clara University, Class of 2018.”
Legan’s grandfather was Tom Legan, a West Point graduate who died in May of 2018. According to his obituary, The elder Legan served as a “captain in Korea as a Nuclear Weapons Officer and completed his military service in Germany. As a civilian, Tom was Western Regional Marketing Director for Kaiser Cement and was thereafter appointed and then elected as Santa Clara County Supervisor for two terms.”
In 1988, he was acquitted by a jury of the alleged rape of his eldest daughter. The Los Angeles Times reported that he was “found innocent Friday of three counts of molesting his elder daughter in 1982.” Legan was seeking re-election at the time.
3. During the Shooting, Witnesses Say They Heard Dozens of Shots & Reported Seeing a Gunman in Camouflage Armed With a Long Rifle
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It has to suck for the msm. They finally get a white supremicist shooter. But he isn't white, Italian was never considered white, and definitely not Iranian. More, his philosophies are congruent with atheist leftism mixed with islam. Are they still going with him using a fully automatic semi automatic too?
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