4 dead, 10 injured in mass shooting at California child’s birthday party, officials say

if even a backyard birthday isn’t safe, what place in America truly is? In the days after the Stockton shooting, the birthday yard became a shrine to all that was lost. Families arrived in silence, touching the police tape as if it were a gravestone, whispering apologies to the children who saw too much, too soon. Yet amid the grief, a fragile resolve continue reading …