Family members were getting ready to cut the cake at the party to celebrate Patrice Williams' daughter turning two when gunfire erupted inside the banquet hall in Stockton, California

The mum of a toddler whose birthday party was "targeted" by a gunman who killed three children as young as eight says she is "shocked and lost".

Patrice Williams thought the gunshots were merely balloons popping at the celebration of her daughter turning two. Family members were about to cut the cake in the banquet hall in Stockton, California when the shooter struck, killing three children and a 21-year-old man on Saturday.

The thug remains on the run despite a desperate police appeal for the public to come forward with information — even that is just rumours . Ms Williams, whose sister, a cousin

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