LOS ANGELES — Six people, including a 6-month old baby, her teenage mother and an elderly woman, were killed Monday in a Central Valley farming community in what the local sheriff said was likely a targeted attack by a drug cartel.
The massacre occurred around 3:30 a.m. in and around a residence in the Tulare County town of Goshen near Visalia. Authorities said they were searching for two suspects and that the killings may have been related to a search warrant carried out last week at one of the homes that resulted in one arrest and the seizure of guns, marijuana and methamphetamine.
“I think it’s specifically connected to the cartel,” Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux told the Los Angeles Times. “The level of violence ... this was not your run-of-the-mill low-end gang member.”
