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California garlic festival gunman killed himself, coroner says

FBI personnel pass a ticket booth at the Gilroy Garlic Festival Monday, July 29, 2019 in Calif. ...
FBI personnel pass a ticket booth at the Gilroy Garlic Festival Monday, July 29, 2019 in Calif., the morning after a gunman killed at least three people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounding about 15 others. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
This screenshot of Santino William Legan's Instagram account shows a selfie of Legan, who opene ...
This screenshot of Santino William Legan's Instagram account shows a selfie of Legan, who opened fire with an "assault-type rifle" on Sunday, July 28, 2019, at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, Calif., killing two children and another man. (Instagram via AP)
Bicycles rest in a parking area at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Monday, July, 29, 2019, in Gil ...
Bicycles rest in a parking area at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Monday, July, 29, 2019, in Gilroy, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Investigators examine an area by an inflatable slide at Christmas Hill Park, the scene of Sunda ...
Investigators examine an area by an inflatable slide at Christmas Hill Park, the scene of Sunday's deadly shooting, Monday, July 29, 2019, in Gilroy, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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The Associated Press
August 2, 2019 - 3:50 pm
 

GILROY, Calif. — The Santa Clara County coroner’s office says the gunman in the deadly Northern California festival shooting killed himself, a finding that contradicts earlier police accounts that officers fired the fatal shot.

Santino William Legan, 19, shot and killed three people — including two children — Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

Nicole Lopez, a senior office specialist in the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office, says Friday that Legan’s cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee had previously said Legan was shot and killed by three officers who responded in less than a minute. Smithee has called the officers “heroes” for preventing additional casualties by taking down the shooter.

Gilroy police have scheduled a news conference for Friday afternoon.

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