Thread: FBI: Media 'wrong' on Garlic Festival shooter's white supremacy ideology, despite soc

SALINAS, Calif. – FBI officials called media reports characterizing the Gilroy festival gunman’s ideology “wrong” after outlets referenced a social media post and literature associated with white supremacists.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday outside the festival grounds – where three were killed and 12 injured Sunday – John Bennett, FBI special agent in charge, said investigators still do not know what the ideology was of the 19-year-old shooter, Santino William Legan.
“We’re looking at multiple threads of conversations that he’s had,” Bennett told reporters, according to footage from KTVU. “However, we’re still not comfortable in saying it’s an ideology, one way or another.”
The FBI agent added officials are awaiting the arrival of the bureau's Behavioral Analysis Unit to come out and better profile and help look at potential mindset and ideology.
Who was the Gilroy gunman? Shooter from boxing-loving family, cited 'Might Makes Right'
In a press conference Tuesday afternoon, FBI Special Agent in Charge Craig Fair said investigators had no reason to believe the shooter was targeting any particular characteristics Sunday. They were still reviewing his social media and digital media forensics, among other pieces of information.
In an Instagram post just before the shooting, a now-deleted account believed to belong to the gunman urged people to read “Might Is Right,” a late 19th century book that the Southern Poverty Law Center said is “widely popular” among white nationalists, Rolling Stone reported.
This is a yearbook photo of Santino William Legan who has been identified as the gunman whose rampage at the Gilroy Garlic Festival left three people dead and at least a dozen injured. (Photo: Joe Szydlowski, USA TODAY NETWORK)

The post reportedly went on, “Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white tw*ts?”
Bennett said Wednesday that, just because someone posts about an 1890s book, it’s information anyone can put out.
Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said the shooter used a legally purchased AK-47-variant assault rifle and authorities recovered a shotgun recovered in his car parked near the park. A bag with additional magazines was recovered in the creek, which is believed to be where Legan traversed to get in the park by cutting a fence.
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Inside, he killed Stephen Romero, 6, Keyla Salazar, 13, and Trevor Irby, 25, and injured 12 others. Gilroy police fatally shot him in about a minute with handguns.
Bennett has said they are “highly confident” he acted alone. According to video footage viewed before the shooting, the gunman frequented several “big box stores” by himself, Smithee said.

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FBI: Media 'wrong' on Garlic Festival shooter's white supremacy ideology
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