One particular person was killed and three others had been injured in a capturing on the dwelling of a metropolis official in California, the place an outside occasion was going down early Saturday, police stated.
A person was pronounced lifeless on the dwelling of Gilroy Metropolis Council Member Rebeca Armendariz, and the three survivors had been hospitalized, two with “life-threatening accidents,” the Gilroy Police Division stated in a press release
Gilroy Mayor Marie Blankley stated in an electronic mail that Armendariz was not bodily injured.
The violence occurred simply earlier than 1 a.m., when responding officers encountered a big, out of doors occasion, the division stated. Police stated they imagine the gunfire was preceded by an altercation.
Armendariz didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Gilroy, with a inhabitants of about 60,000, was as soon as an agricultural city famed for being the self-proclaimed “Garlic Capital of the World.” Now the town emphasizes its area, the Silicon Valley.
Town was the scene of a mass capturing in 2019, when a 19-year-old who had waded into white supremacy opened hearth with a semiautomatic rifle on the annual Gilroy Garlic Pageant, killing three, together with two youngsters, and injuring 12 earlier than fatally capturing himself.
