Investigators can’t corroborate reports of second shooter at Gilroy Garlic Festival, law enforcement sources say

Authorities have been unable to corroborate witness reports of a second shooter in the attack at the Gilroy Garlic Festival over the weekend in northern California, two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation said Tuesday.

Authorities said at the time that they were searching for a second gunman who witnesses said may have been involved in the shooting. But Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee later said multiple people gave differing descriptions of that person.

The shooter, Santino William Legan, 19, cut through a back fence to get into the festival in Gilroy on Sunday and began shooting at random, according to Smithee. He killed three people and injured at least 12 others with an assault-style rifle he bought in Nevada weeks earlier, authorities said.

Police killed the shooter within a minute of him opening fire.

The mass shooting at the popular food festival in the city about 30 miles southeast of San Jose claimed the lives of 6-year-old Stephen Romero, 13-year-old Keyla Salazar and Trevor Irby, a 2017 college graduate.

Authorities continue to seek tips from the public as the investigation progresses.