An Instagram account was opened four days before the shooting by a Santino William Legan of the same age, who self-identified as being of Italian and Iranian descent.[14] A few days before the Garlic Festival, Legan made two posts that complained about the event congesting the countryside with "hordes" of mestizos and Silicon Valley white "twats", and instructed people to read the book Might Is Right by "Ragnar Redbeard", published in 1896. Because the book contains racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Christian content, it is popular in white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and Satanist circles.[21]