Inside the Stockton banquet hall where kids were slaughtered, parents return to a scene of horror

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A gunman or gunmen opened fire at a toddler’s birthday party in Stockton, killing four people including three children and wounding 11 others.

Authorities suspect it was a targeted, gang-related attack with multiple shooters still at large, gripping the city in fear.

Family members returned Sunday to the bullet-riddled banquet hall to retrieve belongings and confront the grim aftermath of the violence.

STOCKTON — The sun was beginning to set Sunday when members of a Stockton family pulled open the metal door of a banquet hall that a day earlier had been the venue for a 2-year-old’s birthday party — a joyful affair that ended in violence and heartbreak.

Inside, the family confro