Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a mass shooting at a child’s birthday party in California on Saturday night, local police said, calling it a “targeted incident.”
The shooting took place inside a banquet hall in Stockton, northeast of San Francisco, San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Heather Brent told reporters in a news briefing.
Brent said the victims, who range from “juveniles to adults,” were taken to local hospitals, adding .
What we have confirmed at this time is that there was a banquet hall where a family was celebrating. We have 14 victims of this shooting. Four of those are deceased.
The sheriff’s office said in a post on social media that detectives were “working to determine the circumstances leading up to this tragedy.”
To date, no suspect has been identified.
There have now been 504 mass shootings in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
