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One person was killed at the scene and one died at a local
hospital, Stockton Police Department spokesman Joe Silva said.
The department said on its Twitter account that a third person
died later.
The remaining victims were taken to area hospitals and were
expected to survive, Silva said.
The department sent homicide and gang investigators to the
scene, which was in an area known for gang activity, Silva said.
Nobody was in custody, he said.
Police got a call about the shooting around 8:20 p.m. local
time, Silva said. A local resident, Heather Payne, told the
Stockton newspaper the Record she had put her daughter to sleep
when she heard two spurts of gunfire.
"That's close to my daughter's bedroom, so I yanked her out of
bed and put her in the bathtub to keep her safe," Payne told the
Record.
A crowd of around 100 gathered near the scene after the
shooting, the Record reported. Some pleaded with officers to
tell them whether their family members had been shot.
Stockton is a city of nearly 300,000 residents, some 50 miles
(80 km) south of Sacramento.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Robert
Birsel, Larry King)
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