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Caylee Hammack, Waterloo Revival, King Calaway Okay After Festival Shooting

Country music newcomers Waterloo Revival, Caylee Hammack, King Calaway are all safe after a deadly shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in San Jose, California yesterday (7/28). NBC’s Bay Area…

Caylee Hammack, Waterloo Revival, King Calaway Okay After Festival Shooting
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Country music newcomers Waterloo Revival, Caylee Hammack, King Calaway are all safe after a deadly shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in San Jose, California yesterday (7/28).

NBC's Bay Area reports that three people were killed, including a 6-year-old boy, and 12 others were wounded after a gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.

A suspect was shot and killed by police and a second suspect is still on the loose as of late last night.

The town's mayor Roland Velasco says that there will be a press conference later today according to CNN. But “there won’t be a lot of new information," but authorities will be "setting the expectations for what the investigation will look like during the day.”

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