A shooting that occurred early Monday morning in the municipality of Goshen (located in Tulare County, California) left 6 dead, including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby, local authorities reported.
The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office reported that the event occurred around 3:30 in the morning (11:30 GMT) at house number 6800 Harvest Road, an address that was searched last week during a drug trafficking raid. drugs.
The agents found 2 lifeless people at the door of the house, another in the immediate vicinity of the house and 3 more in a neighboring area of ​​this town of barely 6,000 inhabitants, located in the center of the state of California.
The Tulare County Sheriff, Mike Boudreaux, appeared before the local press and specified that among the victims are a 17 year old mother and her 6 month old baby.
The authorities went to the home after receiving an emergency call from one of the neighbors warning of the possible presence of an active shooter, due to the large number of shots that had been heard.
For the moment, the hypothesis that it is an isolated event has been ruled out and a brawl between gangs is considered as the main motive for this event.
The investigation remains open while the Tulare Sheriff’s Office, from which the collaboration of any neighbor with information in this regard has been requested, continues to search for two suspects.