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Luckiest Guy in the World ( Gilroy Garlic Festival )

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Luckiest Guy in the World
Peekay Far Cue
Published on Jul 31, 2019
Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting, California July 2019

The VERY NEXT DAY after the Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting, survivor Justin Bates said he was grazed by five to seven bullets and had shrapnel strike his legs and lower body after fleeing from the mass shooting.
Something Stinks in Gilroy and it's not the Garlic.

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Video Transcript:

And it was a crazy day today, you see it first of all, you seem like you're in amazing experience. Yeah, I'm blessed to be alive right now. Got's hand was washing over me. I went to the doctor's day, checked me out and said I got grazed by five to seven different bullets. And two of them were in my upper back area. There was one that went through the fat and right out and my lower right thigh and right above that one went through. I'm going to go through, cut through all the skin and a little area of fat as well, but wasn't through and through, it just kind of like grazed me enough to really leave a little wound. And then I got grazed, I got grazed one time in this back leg, one time in my arm. And then I got a bunch of shrapnel in my left leg, my left calf, some in my right calf, and a little bit in my butt area. And for all that, I can only give you one punch. So the problem is the fact that I got hit in my upper right, if I use a second crutch, it hurts my wound up here. And if I actually just put on my weight on one leg because my left leg has more shrapnel and my right leg actually has the bullet, actually wounding me pretty well. So no matter what leg I put weight on, it just hurts. So I try not to put all the weight on one leg. I kind of like use the one crush to spray myself up and try to put the weight through two different ones. Can you just bring us back? Can you just tell us what was happening? What happened to one of the two before? So I'm not sure exactly who was the first person to see him, but I remember seeing him walking up from the fence line. He just kind of appeared out of nowhere. He'd shot once and looked like the gun got jammed because he started coughing at about three or four more times. And then he brought it back up and started shooting automatic fire into the crowds. He started with like the stage section and then he worked his way to the left to like where the kids were and then towards where we were sitting behind the booths. The food booths. And it was going to be nice. That this was happening. The first thing I did was jump on this section. My good friend like sister to me, her name is Sarah. I jumped on her and got her out of the way. And then she crawled to safety and I ran out of there. And when I started running, that's when I got raised in my upper back and on my arm. And I just heard bullets flying past me. And also before I jumped on her right when I jumped up and tried to land on her, that's when I felt the bullets hit my legs. I just felt heat, just a lot of heat on my legs. And at that point I was pretty sure that I was hit and I just knew that I couldn't worry about that at the moment because I need to go out of there if I wanted to say my life.