Gilroy Shooting: What is the garlic festival about?

GILROY, Calif. -- Four people, including the suspect, died and more than a dozen were injured during a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Here's a look at what the annual event is all about about.
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• The Gilroy Garlic Festival is an annual festival celebrating Gilroy's most abundant crop: garlic.


• The food festival is held at Christmas Hill Park about 30 miles south of San Jose, California.


• People attending can buy food cooked with garlic, garlic cooking demonstrations, and multiple stages for live music.


• The three-day festival ran from Friday, July 26 through Sunday, July 28.


• The festival began in 1979. This year it marked its 40th anniversary.


• 4,000 volunteers work to make the Gilroy Garlic Festival a success. It features only California-grown garlic.


• One of its most famous foods is garlic ice cream.


• The Gilroy Garlic Festival benefits local charities and nonprofit groups.


• Weapons of any kind, alcohol, bottles, cans, glass are prohibited.

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