Tashante McCoy was celebrating her grandson’s fifth birthday in Stockton, California, on Saturday, when she learned that masked men had opened fire at another child’s birthday party on the other side of town.
Armed men had walked into the banquet hall where at least 100 people had gathered to celebrate a toddler’s birthday, a friend of McCoy’s who was at the event would later tell her. At least one man opened fire just as partygoers were preparing to cut the cake.
