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BREAKING: Reports of a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Details right now are coming mostly from witnesses. We've been given permission to run this video, in which you can hear a pop noise and see crowds running in a panic. @FOX40
@FOX40 "...there were people on the ground, crying...there was a little kid hurt on the ground. People were throwing tables and cutting fences to get out.”
#Gilroy Mayor commending law enforcement for preventing further tragedy, responding quickly to the shooter at Gilroy #garlicfestival@FOX40
#Gilroy Police Chief taking podium now. Says they have police personnel on site through entire festival, which brings about 80,000 ppl to Gilroy @FOX40
Suspect was armed with an assault type rifle, as soon as suspect saw officers approach he took aim at them. 3 officers were able to shoot/kill suspect within a minute of his opening fire #GilroyGarlicFestival@FOX40
#Gilroy Police Chief confirms a six-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl are among the dead, along with a man in his 20s. #GilroyGarlicFestival@FOX40
Chief also confirms the 19 year old shooter bought his weapon, an AK 47 style weapon, legally in Nevada a few weeks ago. Clearly a lot of emotion behind Chief Smithee’s words #GilroyGarlicFestival#gilroyshooting@FOX40
This is 6-year-old Stephen Romero, killed in the #GilroyGarlicFestival shooting. Family shared this pic. There’s no story assignment more difficult than something like this. As reporters we try just as hard to get the right TONE as we do to get the right facts. RIP Stephen @FOX40
#Gilroy police chief says person who was joking about being involved in it on social media brought in for questioning, released. @FOX40
Chief says Services, mental health counseling, grief counseling will be available tonight beginning at 5:00 pm, and then all week 9:00 am to 10:00 pm in #Gilroy@FOX40
FBI field agent confirms weapon was a type of AK 47 rifle-investigators looking into the shooters motives and whether he was targeting specific types of people, or shooting randomly. Witnesses described what looked like random shooting #GilroyShooting#GilroyGarlicFestival@FOX40
For a self proclaimed small town, #Gilroy certainly showed out for this vigil honoring the victims of the #GilroyGarlicFestival shooting. Mayor says it makes him proud to see the crowd @FOX40
“I said I can’t believe this is happening again.” -Alicia Olive, a survivor of the Las Vegas Route 91 Music Festival mass shooting, was leaving the #GilroyGarlicFestival when she heard gunfire. She’s now a survivor of 2 mass shootings @FOX40
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BREAKING: Kayleigh McEnany confirms President Trump has been taken to Walter Reed Medical Center. That’s a change of plans from this morning, when the President was going to remain at the White House @NewsNationNow
President Trump gave a thumbs up to the pool cameras on his way from the White House to Marine One. On his way to Walter Reed Medical Center for a few days, per WH Press Secretary @NewsNationNow
Walter Reed is full of local and federal law enforcement, entrance blocked off as President Trump begins his stay here at Walter Reed medical center @NewsNationNow
10 Democrat Senators signed this letter addressed to Sen. Lindsey Graham calling on him to state unequivocally that he will not consider any nominee to fill Justice Ginsburg's seat #RBG#RuthBaderGinsburg@NewsNationNow
The letter quotes Graham directly from 2016
1) “If there is a Republican President in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say ‘Lindsey Graham said let us let the next President, whoever it might be, make that nomination.’
2) And you could use my words against me, and you would be absolutely right.”
From President Trump's memo on defunding cities w/ social unrest "...it is imperative that the Federal Government review the use of Federal funds by jurisdictions that permit anarchy, violence, and destruction." @NewsNationNow#NexstarDC
"Yes, the President is serious about this."-Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany got a few questions on this, mostly when pressed that the move is unconstitutional. POTUS does not have the authority to unilaterally withhold funds appropriated by Congress. #NexstarDC@NewsNationNow
McEnany broke down what this White House memo tries to accomplish in 3 parts...The legal experts & members of congress we've spoken to today say this is unconstitutional and will almost immediately be met by legal challenges. #NexstarDC@NewsNationNow