(KRON) -- Fourteen-year-old Amari Peterson "was simply being a kid, at a kids’ party" in Stockton last weekend when he became a victim of a mass shooting that left four dead and nearly a dozen injured, according investigators and a GoFundMe page.

Gunfire broke out at a banquet hall on Lucile Avenue in Stockton where at least 100 people were gathered for a 2-year-old girl's birthday party, investigators and family members of victims said.

A gunman killed an 8-year-old child, a 9-year-old child, 14-year-old Amari, and a 21-year-old adult Saturday evening, the San Joaquin County Sheriff said.

"One of the innocent victims in the Stockton mass shooting on Saturday the 29th was our loving 14-year-old Amari — a bright, loved, and promising young soul whose life was taken far too soon by a sens

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