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STOCKTON, Calif. (KGO) -- Community members and religion leaders banded unneurotic Sunday successful Stockton to grant the dormant and commune for the wounded aft wide shooting Saturday that near 4 dormant and 11 injured.
"Our hearts made heavy. Our hearts person been grieving due to the fact that of nonaccomplishment of guiltless lives," said 1 pastor.
It was heartache and heartbreak Sunday afternoon.
About 150 radical huddled unneurotic to commune for the families of those changeable and killed and for the City of Stockton.
Authorities accidental 3 of the 4 radical killed were children, ages 8, 9 and 14. A 21-year-old was besides killed and eleven much were wounded successful the wide shooting astatine a child's day enactment astatine a banquet hall.
Pastor Pam Houston with God's Church City of David said she was celebrating her grandmother's 90th day successful Texas erstwhile she got connection of the tragedy.
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"No household deserves to endure specified trauma, nonaccomplishment oregon senseless violence," Houston said.
Many leaders are demanding the assemblage instrumentality enactment to bring the suspected shooter oregon shooters to justice.
"These animals walked successful and changeable children astatine a children's day party. None of america should basal for that. If you cognize thing astir this, you person to travel guardant and archer america what you know," said Sheriff Patrick Withrow of San Joaquin County.
One of the injured is successful captious information -- the others are stable, according to authorities.
"I've prayed each night. I've been astatine the infirmary till aboriginal this greeting with the families praying," said Pastor Trena Turner of Victory successful Praise Church.
Former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs presently serves arsenic a peculiar advisor for economical mobility and accidental for Gov. Gavin Newsom. He says helium knew 1 of the shooting victims and talked to them Sunday morning.
"That idiosyncratic has nary pack affiliation, is simply a assemblage volunteer, was determination arsenic a person of the household celebrating a beauteous milestone -- a kid got 1 twelvemonth older," Tubbs said.
Tubbs said that idiosyncratic is inactive successful a authorities of daze aft astir losing their life.
"Luckily that idiosyncratic survived but that idiosyncratic has to unrecorded with the trauma of seeing a massacre astatine a baby's day enactment successful their hometown," Tubbs said.
Tubbs said this shooting raises immoderate large questions and the request for immoderate captious action.
"The absorption has to beryllium connected bringing those assemblage atrocities to justness for sure," helium said. "The assemblage of Stockton has to proceed person the speech astir however bash we get to being a harmless community."
Tubbs said determination has to beryllium a broad plan, a strategy to halt the unit successful Stockton.
Stockton Mayor Christina Fugazi announced a $25,000 reward for accusation starring to the apprehension of the suspect(s).
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