(AP)–A 6-year-old boy was one of the three people killed when a gunman opened fire at a Northern California garlic festival.
Alberto Romero told NBC Bay Area that his son Stephen was killed.
“My son had his whole life to live and he was only 6,” his father Alberto Romero told NBC Bay Area. “That’s all I can say.”
Edward and Jane Jacobucci said they were standing at their booth selling garlic graters when the shooting started Sunday afternoon at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.
Edward Jacobucci said the shooting was “absolute chaos.” “It happened right in front of our booth,” he said.
Jane Jacobucci described the shooter as a tall, thin young man in camouflage with a big gun.
She said her husband threw her to the ground when the shooting started.
Three people were killed and at least 15 other injured in the shooting. Also dead is the shooter, who used a rifle and gained entry to the packed festival by cutting through a fence to avoid the tight security, including metal detectors, police said.
