FBI Investigates Gilroy Shooting as Domestic Terror, on Top of El Paso Attack
The FBI said it is opening a domestic terrorism investigation into last week’s mass shooting that killed three people at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California. The news comes on top of a domestic terrorism investigation opened by the FBI into the attack in El Paso that killed 22 people on Saturday.
John Bennett, special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Francisco office, said during a press conference Tuesday that investigators have determined that the Gilroy shooter “explored violent ideologies” and created a list of political, religious, and governmental targets prior to the attack. The target list directly led investigators to treat the incident as domestic terrorism, Bennet said.
“We are still looking for the motive in this crime, but due to the information we have uncovered, we are opening a full domestic terrorism investigation.”
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