Heroic 10-Year-Old Saved Toddler From Gilroy Garlic Festival Mass Shooter
GILROY (KPIX) - An amazing story of bravery unfolded during the tragic mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, when a quick-thinking ten-year old girl saved a toddler from getting hit by a bullet.
The 3-year-old boy's parents were selling honey at a stand called Honey Ladies.
When the gunman came over a fence, he shot the toddlers parents, according to a relative.
The couple survived by playing dead, and staying on the ground.
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The girl said she saw the boy just standing there, frozen in shock.
That's when she ran to him and pulled him under a table, to safety.
She said she locked eyes with the gunman, but he kept moving.
Neither of the children were hurt.
