Hateful final Instagram posts by 'Gilroy Garlic shooter' | Daily Mail Online
PICTURED: Gilroy Garlic festival shooter, 19, who quoted white supremacist book on Instagram moments before opening fire on terrified crowds, killing three including a six-year-old boy
- The gunman was named on Monday as Santino William Legan, a 19-year-old
- He was shot dead at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California at 5.41pm Sunday
- An Instagram account run in his name complained about 'mestizos', a slur for a mixed race person
- It also complained about 'Silicon Valley twats' and posted photographs from the festival itself
- Witnesses say he was dressed in army fatigues, had a handkerchief around his neck and had an assault rifle
- When asked why he was firing into the crowd, witnesses say he replied: 'Because I'm really angry'
- Police say he got into the festival by using bolt cutters to get through the metal fences surrounding it
- The event, which attracts 100,000 every year to Gilroy (the garlic capital of the world), had metal detectors
- Authorities believe the gunman had help and they are searching for his 'accomplice'
- One of the three people killed was six-year-old Steven Romero of San Jose, California
- Fifteen people were also injured and many remain in various hospitals in the area
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Jennifer Smith and
Megan Sheets For Dailymail.com
Published: 12:51 EDT, 29 July 2019 | Updated: 13:10 EDT, 29 July 2019
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Santino Legan, 19, has been identified as the gunman who opened fire on crowds at Sunday's festival
The hateful final Instagram posts of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter complained about mixed race people, Silicon Valley and promoted a controversial anarchist book that is beloved by white supremacists moments before the shooting on Sunday.
Santino Legan, 19, has been identified as the gunman who opened fire on crowds at Sunday's festival, killing three people including a six-year-old boy. He was shot dead at the scene.
Before the shooting, he posted on Instagram on a now-deleted account from the festival.
One said: 'Ayyy garlic festival time. Come get wasted on overpriced s**t.' It showed a photograph from the festival.
Another referenced the book Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard, aka Arthur Desmond, an alt-right politician whose views are beloved by white supremacists and are widely considered antisemitic. The book is so inflammatory it was banned for years.
'Read Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?' one of the posts read.
Mestizos is a racist slur towards mixed race people.
Legan was named on Monday as police in Gilroy, where the shooting happened, continued to hunt for his accomplice.
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Moments before the shooting, the teenager posted a photograph (center) from the festival
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He also complained about 'mestizos', a slur for mixed race people, and quoted a controversial book that is widely considered a white supremacist manifesto