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   STOCKTON, Calif. -- Family members were getting ready to cut the cake at   
   a toddler's birthday party when the gunfire started inside a banquet   
   hall packed with relatives and friends over the weekend in California.   
      
   "I actually thought it was my balloons popping. It was gunshots," said   
   Patrice Williams, the birthday girl's mother.   
      
   Her daughter, who turned two years old, was uninjured. But Williams told   
   The Associated Press on Monday that her sister, a cousin and three of   
   her friends were shot in the burst of violence Saturday evening in   
   Stockton.   
      
   Three children ages 8, 9 and 14 and a 21-year-old were killed in the   
   hall where at least 100 people were gathered, San Joaquin County Sheriff   
   Patrick Withrow said. Detectives believe the gunfire continued outside   
   and there may have been multiple shooters.   
      
   Eleven people were wounded, and at least one is in critical condition,   
   Withrow said. No one is in custody.   
      
   Williams said partygoers who had gathered around the cake dropped to the   
   ground the moment the gunshots rang out.   
      
   "It was just unexpected. I don't know what happened, and I'm just so   
   shocked and lost," Williams said. She expressed remorse for the mothers   
   who lost their children.   
      
   Williams said she didn't get a look at the shooter and has no idea who   
   would commit violence at what was supposed to be a joyous event.   
      
   "They deserve to be in jail. They deserve to go to hell," Williams said.   
   "I'm sorry, but I just ... it's not respectable. It's a kids' party."   
      
   The sheriff urged anyone with information to contact his office with   
   tips, cellphone video or witness accounts.   
      
   "This is a time for our community to show that we will not put up with   
   this type of behavior, when people will just walk in and kill children,"   
   Withrow said Sunday evening. "And so if you know anything about this,   
   you have to come forward and tell us what you know. If not, you just   
   become complacent and think this is acceptable behavior."   
      
   Sheriff's spokesperson Heather Brent has said investigators believe it   
   was a "targeted incident." Officials did not elaborate on why   
   authorities believe it was intentional or who might have been targeted.   
   She said investigators would welcome any information, "even rumors."   
      
   Roscoe Brown, who said the party was in honor of his brother's   
   granddaughter, works for the city of Stockton's Office of Violence   
   Prevention. Brown was in Arizona when he learned about the shooting and   
   drove straight to the scene. He said a niece and nephew were shot, and   
   he knows several other victims. He didn't have information about their   
   conditions.   
      
   "Who would come and do that to some kids, you know?" Brown told The   
   Associated Press following a vigil organized by faith leaders to honor   
   the dead and pray for the wounded. "You can't shoot up a party. That's   
   senseless. A kid's party, at that."   
      
   Emmanuel Lopez told the Los Angeles Times his brother, 21-year-old   
   Susano Archuleta, was shot in the neck and died at the scene. Lopez said   
   his 9-year-old daughter was shot in the head but survived. He didn't   
   share details about what led up to the shooting.   
      
   Stockton is a city of 320,000 residents about 80 miles (130 kilometers)   
   east of San Francisco. Stockton saw 3,680 violent crimes in 2024, at a   
   rate more than double the statewide rate, according to city and state   
   data. Violent crime includes homicide, rape, assault and robbery. The   
   San Joaquin Valley, where Stockton is located, had the highest violent   
   crime rate in the state in 2023, according to data from the Public   
   Policy Institute of California.   
      
   Hours after the shooting, the Stockton Police Department arrested five   
   people, including a juvenile, on weapons and gang-related charges. There   
      
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