A 14-year-old boy was at the wrong place at the wrong time when he was gunned down at a child’s birthday party in a California shooting that left three others dead, including two children, according to his grieving mother.

Amari Peterson was attending a party at a banquet hall in Stockton on Nov. 29 when gunfire rang out in the evening, killing him, along with an 8- and a 9 -year-old, as well as a 21-year-old victim.

“My baby was innocent,” heartbroken mother Kim Peterson told the Stockton Record .

“We were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Who would have known my baby wasn’t gonna come home with me?”

Peterson described her son as a loving and caring boy who loved sports, including basketball and football.

“I’m just lost for words. Just pray for me, my family, his friend

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