Gunman’s death in mass shooting at northern California food festival ruled suicide

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An autopsy found that the teenager who opened fire with an assault rifle at a weekend food festival in Northern California, killing three people, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, a coroner's spokeswoman said on Friday. Police had originally said that the gunman, Santino William Legan, 19, was shot dead by police officers who were on patrol at Sunday's Gilroy Garlic Festival and confronted Legan when he began his rampage. Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee has commended the three officers involved as heroes, saying that the casualty toll would likely have been higher had they not confronted the gunman when they did, within seconds after the shooting started.

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