{"id":88366,"date":"2025-12-10T00:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/88366\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:14:10","slug":"stockton-mass-shooting-update-masked-gunmen-fired-at-least-50-rounds-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/88366\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockton mass shooting update: Masked gunmen fired at least 50 rounds, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At least 50 rounds were fired by multiple masked gunmen during an attack at a crowded banquet hall that left three children and an adult dead in Stockton, San Joaquin Sheriff Patrick Withrow said Tuesday during an update to the investigation of the deadly mass shooting. <\/p>\n

The shell casings littered across the floor of what had been a child\u2019s birthday party on Nov. 29 also indicate at least five different firearms were used, Withrow said, adding that investigators are still processing evidence, video and tips in their investigation. A wall inside the banquet hall was left splattered with blood.<\/a><\/p>\n

But 10 days after the shooting left four people dead, 11 wounded, and a city rattled, Withrow pleaded with the community to remain patient, saying it could still be weeks or months before arrests are made and the community receives answers. <\/p>\n

\u201cI know this is going to be difficult, but this is not going to be in a week or two we\u2019ve got an answer and we start arresting people \u2014 you have to know that,\u201d Withrow said. \u201cThis is going to take months to process all this, figure out who did this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victims were identified by family members as Maya Lupian, 8; Journey Rose Reotutar Guerrero, 8; Amari Peterson, 14; and Susano Archuleta, 21.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes me feel like I\u2019m in a nightmare, I\u2019m in the Twilight Zone ever since this happened,\u201d said Patrick Peterson, Amari\u2019s father. <\/p>\n

Peterson\u2019s daughter was also wounded in the shooting, but recovered. On Tuesday, Peterson stood next to Stockton Vice Mayor Jason Lee during a news conference at City Hall.<\/p>\n

Peterson urged anyone with information on the shooters to come forward. \u201cI hope that you do the right thing because at the end of the day, if you don\u2019t do the right thing, it\u2019s just going to keep happening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lee agreed, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing else to talk about other than to catch the people who are responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Withrow said investigators were still determining a motivation for the attack, but that known gang members attended the birthday party. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to take our time, take our information, and process it,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Officials are also working to determine where the shots were fired from, Withrow said, and whether any of the attendees of the party returned fire during the attack. <\/p>\n

Firearms were also recovered in the roof of the banquet hall, Withrow said, but officials have not yet determined whether they were connected to the attack. <\/p>\n

Sheriff\u2019s investigators are working with the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Department of Justice and Stockton Police in the investigation.<\/p>\n

Investigators are also processing more than 50 tips that have come in from the public. <\/p>\n

Officials have offered no description of the shooters because attendees of the party said the gunmen were masked. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe only information we\u2019re getting so far from folks who were at the scene was that the people involved in this were dressed all in black and had face coverings, so all you could see was this,\u201d Withrow said, motioning with his hand around his eyes. \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t mean we don\u2019t know who they are, or don\u2019t believe we know who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 50 rounds were fired by multiple masked gunmen during an attack at a crowded banquet hall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1794,44007,7,9,8,49269,1776,348,3816,49268,3335,49267,592,16408,2637,483,68,44351],"class_list":["post-88366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-attack","tag-birthday-party","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crowded-banquet-hall","tag-information","tag-investigation","tag-investigator","tag-masked-gunman","tag-official","tag-patrick-peterson","tag-people","tag-round","tag-sheriff","tag-stockton","tag-tuesday","tag-withrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}