Suspected gunman at US food festival shot and killed: police

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This screen grab taken from a handout video footage shows police cars arriving to the Gilroy garlic festival, 80 miles south of San Francisco, California on July 28, 2019. – A shooter opened fire at a major food festival in the US state of California on Sunday, police said, with US media reporting at least three people were killed and multiple others wounded. (Photo by Handout / Christopher Robinson Morales / AFP) 

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A suspected gunman in a deadly shooting at a food festival in California was shot and killed by officers, police said Sunday.

The shooting which took place at the site of a major garlic festival in Gilroy, 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of San Jose, left four people dead including the gunman, Gilroy police chief Scot Smithee said.

“Officers were in that area, and engaged the suspect in less than a minute. The suspect was shot and killed,” said Smithee.

A search for a possible second suspect was ongoing, he added.

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