GILROY, Calif. — A best friend of 25-year-old Trevor Irby told ABC10 the two were speaking with each other on an iPhone FaceTime call minutes before a gunman opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday.
Later, Steven Wyrosdick would learn his friend was one of the three people killed during the mayhem.
"Of all places in the world for him to be there at some festival," Wyrosdick said. "We were trying to do math and it was 0.12 [percent] of a chance that it could have been him at this festival and of all places in the world to be in the wrong places at the wrong time.
"You hear about all these mass shootings that are going on around the world and obviously nothing you can do. You feel for the things that happen, you don’t really know the way it feels and the feeling you get in your stomach and the way everything feels until it’s someone close to you."
Wyrosdick told ABC10 he and Irby knew each other in high school where the two competed against one another in sports. Both men grew up in similar small New York towns. Their friendship grew as freshman at Keuka College in Keuka Park, New York.
“We’ve just built this bond we are more than best friends,” Wyrosdick said.
In college, Irby, Wyrosdick, and two other guys, Matt Hey and Ben Schreiber, became life-long friends.
"We are never apart other than when he just moved, and it was like we weren’t apart even when he was gone," Wyrosdick said.
Wyrosdick, Hey and Schreiber took it upon themselves to create a GoFundMe page to raise money for Irby’s memorial.
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