STOCKTON -- Two mass shootings, less than five miles apart, but separated by decades, are once again leaving the Stockton community shaken.

The 1989 Cleveland Elementary School shooting, which left five children dead, remains one of the city's most painful memories. Now, this weekend's tragedy is bringing those horrific memories back to the surface.

"It brought me back to Cleveland School, when all those children had been killed, too. And then this one, it was also children," said Patricia Flores, whose nephew was killed in Saturday's shooting.

"Why would someone want to do that?" Flores added. "Why take your anger out on innocent people?"

Saturday's shooting at a children's birthday party has stirred painful memories of the 1989 attack, when 24-year-old Patrick Purdy opened fire on

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