Crime & Safety
Gilroy Shooting: Trevor Irby Of Santa Cruz Among Dead
The 25-year-old had just moved to the area from New York, and was with his girlfriend, Sarah, when the shooting began.

SANTA CRUZ, CA — The Santa Clara County medical examiner's office has confirmed the identities of all three victims killed in the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting Sunday, and one of them had just moved to Santa Cruz from New York. Twenty-five-year-old Trevor Irby and his girlfriend of five years, Sarah Warner, had recently moved to Santa Cruz and attended the festival together on Sunday.
"We are so thankful that Sarah is safe, but that does not change the very deep sadness that we all feel," the couple's alma mater, Keuka College's occupational therapy program in New York, wrote on Facebook.
"Trevor was a brother, a son, a grandson, a boyfriend, a best friend and a bright light to all who knew him," says a GoFundMe page set up by Irby's best friends — Matt Hey, Steven Wyrosdick and Ben Schreiber — who all met in college during their freshman year. "Trevor will forever live on in the memory of his loved ones."
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Also killed in Sunday's shooting were 6-year-old Stephen Romero and 13-year-old Keyla Salazar of San Jose. All three are believed to have been shot and killed by 19-year-old Santino William Legan of Gilroy on the last evening of the annual festival.
The shooting appears to be random and an investigation is ongoing, according to Gilroy police Chief Scot Smithee. Legan purchased an AK-47-style assault rifle legally in Nevada on July 9 and snuck into the festival by cutting through a fence. The shooting was reported at about 5:40 p.m. and Legan was shot and killed by responding officers about a minute later.
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Officers served warrants at Legan's home and vehicle in Gilroy on Monday, and the FBI is sweeping a crime scene that spans several acres at Christmas Hill Park, the location of the festival.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office is operating a family assistance center at Rucker Elementary School in Gilroy, 325 Santa Clara Ave.
Anyone with information, photo or video of the shooting is asked to contact Gilroy police at (408) 846-0583, or submit files to the FBI at http://www.fbi.gov/gilroy.
—Bay City News contributed to this report.
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