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U.S. NEWS Saturday 3 auguSt 2019
California festival gunman

killed himself, officials say

By STEFANIE DAZIO
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The
gunman who opened fire
on a California food festival
killed himself after officers
shot him multiple times, offi-
cials said Friday, correcting
previous police accounts
In this June 2, 2016 file photo, a missing poster for the remain- that the officers fired the
ing "Inverted Jenny," one of four rare 1918 stamps featuring an fatal bullet.
airplane printed upside-down and stolen in 1955, is displayed at Police gave the update
the World Stamp Show, in New York. soon after the Santa Clara
Associated Press County Medical Examin- This screenshot of Santino William Legan's Instagram account
Experts stamp out er-Coroner's Office said shows a selfie of Legan, who opened fire with an "assault-type
19-year-old Santino William
rifle" on Sunday, July 28, 2019, at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gil-
Legan died of a self-inflict-
Iowa museum hopes: ed gunshot wound. roy, Calif., killing two children and another man.
Associated Press
Legan killed three people
'Inverted Jenny' a fake — including two children — Francisco. termine a motive through
interviews and combing
and injured 13 others at the John Bennett, the FBI's spe-
popular Gilroy Garlic Festi- cial agent in charge in San through physical and digi-
By MARGERY A. BECK age under a microscope val on Sunday. Authorities Francisco, has said Legan tal evidence.
Associated Press would appear as a series of say they have not yet been did not appear to be tar- Officials say their investi-
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — lines. able to determine his mo- geting a particular group gation has not shown that
Hopes by a small aviation A reproduction for printed tive. and that he did not seem anyone else was involved.
museum in southwestern material decades later Gilroy Police Chief Scot to follow a specific ideol- But authorities arrested a
Iowa that a stamp in its pos- would have been com- Smithee told reporters that ogy. man earlier this week on
session was rare enough to prised of a series of tiny the timeline remains the Legan's social media raised suspicion of making threats
parlay a potential fortune dots, which is what ap- same: Three veteran police questions after he urged his online that apparently ref-
crashed Friday when ex- peared under the scope, officers responded in less Instagram followers on the erenced the deadly shoot-
perts told them it wasn't Martin said. than a minute and fired day of the attack to read ing. Jose Pinon, 40, of Gil-
real, and likely not even The news was disappoint- multiple rounds when Le- a 19th-century book popu- roy, posted Wednesday on
worth the paper it was ing for those at the mu- gan turned his AK-47-style lar with white supremacists Facebook that "my goal is
glued upon. seum, which also serves semi-automatic rifle on on extremist websites. Pro- to kill 500, not three," Gilroy
The Iowa Aviation Museum as the home of the Iowa them. Smithee said the of- filers were working to de- police said.q
in Greenfield, Iowa, has Aviation Hall of Fame and ficers hit him multiple times
had what it thought was had hoped to auction the and he fell to the ground
a 1918 "Inverted Jenny" stamp for hundreds of thou- with the rifle.
stamp on public display for sands of dollars and build a "He was able to get one
some 20 years, dating back new museum hangar. more round off, and he
to when it was donated to "We really didn't know what was able to shoot himself in
the museum, glued to a we had," Larry Konz, a tour the head," the police chief
board along with several guide at the museum, said said.
other stamps. A notation Friday. "When we were told Smithee said he was "a little
from the donor attached that we might have the surprised" to hear that Le-
to the board speculated real deal, I thought, 'My gan had shot himself.
then that it was worth God, we might have some- "I don't think that changes
about $73,000. thing quite valuable here, anything about the hero-
Experts at the national and we've had it hanging ics of our officers," Smithee
stamp convention meet- on a wall all this time." said.
ing in Omaha knew imme- Had it been real, it would The chief did not know how
diately the stamp wasn't be worth between many times police fired at
authentic, said Ken Martin $300,000 and $400,000 at him, or how many bullets
with the American Philatel- auction, Martin said. There struck him. A full coroner's
ic Society that's holding the were only 100 of the stamps report is pending.
show through Sunday. printed in 1918, with the im- Legan killed 6-year-old Ste-
"It wasn't the right size. It age of a JN-4-H "Jenny" phen Romero and 13-year-
was too small," Martin said. biplane accidentally dis- old Keyla Salazar of San
"This version was likely cut played upside-down on a Jose, along with Trevor Irby,
out of a postage stamp 24-cent stamp. 25, of Romulus, New York,
auction catalog." "I knew it was probably on the last day of the long-
An examination under a a slim chance of it being running festival. It draws
microscope confirmed genuine, given how rare more than 100,000 people
experts' initial doubt. A that stamp is," she said. with music, food booths
100-year-old stamp would "But, boy, it sure would and cooking classes to the
have been printed from an have been exciting if it had city roughly 80 miles (129 ki-
artist's engraving, so the im- been."q lometers) southeast of San