THE SCENE IS STREWN with evidence of violence and frantic movement. It is also filled with party streamers, hundreds of multicolored balloons and paper plates with slices of chocolate cake left unfinished.
The mass shooting shocked Stockton on Saturday not just for its toll of violence but for its setting: a children’s birthday party and family gathering at a banquet hall.
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