Like every other town that has been visited by the now-familiar plague of mass shootings, Gilroy is beginning the process of moving on.
As the FBI seeks a motive in the Gilroy shooting, they say gunman Santino William Legan read “conflicting literature.”
“That family lost its son,” he said. “It’s just very sad to see a young individual suffering to the extent that he did what he did. I wish someone had reached him sooner.”Linda Ashford woke up Wednesday to news that two people had been shot to death at a Walmart in Mississippi. The shootings happen so frequently, often under such similar circumstances, she said: “We don’t remember which one is which.
By Wednesday, the news trucks had mostly decamped. Downtown was quiet; it felt, Ashford said, “just a little bit off.”
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