Fourteen Shot, Four Dead, at Kid’s Birthday Party in Suspected Targeted Incident Near Stockton

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/29/fourteen-shot-four-dead-during-kids-birthday-party-near-stockton-in-suspected-targeted-incident/A mass shooting occurred at a child’s birthday party in the Central Valley just north of Stockton Saturday evening, killing four people and sending ten to the hospital. Authorities think it may have been targeted. As KTVU reports, the shooting took place at a banquet hall on the 1900 block of Lucile Avenue in San Joaquin County north of Stockton just before 6 pm Saturday, in a suspected targeted incident, per KGO. In an announcement regarding the incident, Stockton Vice Mayor Jason Lee initially referred to the incident as taking place at an ice cream shop, but authorities later clarified it happened at a banquet hall near a Da