Key Highlights
- It may take investigators months to figure out what led to the tragedy, authorities said. As investigators parse through the aftermath of the shooting, they have found at least 50 shell casings and believe at least five firearms were used in the attack, San Joaquin sheriff Patrick Withrow told reporters during a press conference on Tuesday.“There’s not a lot of meat on the bone, unfortunately,” Withrow said of the information he had to share.
- “As you can imagine, we have a lot to process … to determine how many actors got involved in this and how many people were actually shooting.”Withrow also acknowledged the reports and rumors that the shooting had been tied to a gang dispute and emphasized that no motives had been determined.
- The events that led up to the shooting remain unknown, he said, and likely won’t be determined anytime soon.“This is not going to be, ‘in a week or two we’ve got an answer and we start arresting people’,” Withrow continued.
- “This is going to take months to process all this and figure out who did this.”As investigators sort through the dozens of bullet cases, a litany of photo and video evidence and more than 50 tips, city officials and victims’ advocates are pushing to keep the victims, survivors and witnesses of the shooting at the forefront of the media conversation and ensuring that suspicions around the cause of the shooting doesn’t overshadow or distract from the immense pain – both physical and emotional – this shooting has caused.“I’ve been watching all the media reports and conversations and there’s so much out there,” Stockton’s vice-mayor, Jason Lee, told reporters during a Tuesday press conference where he spoke alongside a local faith leader, a violence-prevention advocate and the father of 14-year-old Amari King, one of the shooting victims.
- “But the thing that is singularly most important to me at this moment is making sure these families get the closure that I was able to get when the person responsible for killing my brother and for shooting me were brought to justice.”“This makes me feel like I’m in a nightmare.
