Six people, including a six-month-old baby and his 17-year-old mother, were killed Monday morning in California, the local sheriff announced, suspecting it was a gang-related attack. “We believe this is not a random act of violence” but that this “family was targeted,” Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux in central California said during a briefing. He is looking for two suspects.
The house in which this “terrifying massacre” took place, in the words of the sheriff, had been searched in a narcotics case a week earlier.
“Gangs”, possibly involved in drug trafficking, “are linked” to this attack, the sheriff estimated.
“It was not blind violence”
When police arrived on the scene, they found two lifeless bodies in the street before discovering four other people hit by firearms, all of whom died of their injuries, the sheriff said. The six-month-old baby and her mother were shot in the head, he added.
“It was not indiscriminate violence,” the sheriff said, without elaborating on the two suspects wanted and their motivations.
Around 49,000 people died from gunshot wounds in 2021 in the United States. This represents more than 130 deaths per day, more than half of which are suicides.
The country has more individual guns than inhabitants: one in three adults owns at least one gun, and almost one in two adults lives in a house where there is a gun.
Source: BFM TV
