A silver Kia pulled up outside the party on North 2nd Street on Sunday afternoon, the King City Police Department said in a statement.
Four people were killed Sunday afternoon when a group of gunmen opened fire outside a party at a house in King City, California, police said.
A silver Kia pulled up outside the party on North 2nd Street on Sunday afternoon, the King City Police Department said in a statement.
Three men hopped out of the vehicle and "shot multiple rounds at the partygoers in the front yard," ABC News quoted the police as saying.
"The suspects got back in their vehicle and fled the scene," police said. "The suspects were wearing dark-colored clothing and had dark-colored masks over their heads. They have not been identified and remain outstanding."
Police were dispatched to the scene at about 6 p.m., according to the statement. Three men were pronounced dead outside the house and a woman was transported to Mee Memorial Hospital, where she later died, police said.
Three other men were transported to Natividad Hospital in Salinas for medical treatment, police said.
According to CNN, there have been at least 13 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of February 21. Three were on college campuses, and nine were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left eight people dead and at least 20 others injured, according to CNN’s analysis of events reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety.
CNN cross-checks the reports of school shootings against school and police accounts and media reports. All incidents of gun violence are included if they occurred on school property, from kindergartens through colleges/universities, and at least one person was shot, not including the shooter.
School property includes but is not limited to, buildings, fields, parking lots, stadiums and buses. Accidental discharges of firearms are included, as long as at least one person is shot, but not if the sole shooter is law enforcement or school security.
In the first year of the pandemic, when schools were closed, there was a major decline in gun violence incidents on school grounds. Since then, recent years saw a stark increase in school shootings, with 2021, 2022 and 2023 all setting records since at least 2008.
There were at least 82 incidents in 2023, but 2022 was one of the deadliest years, with 46 fatalities, according to CNN’s analysis. That year saw the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two educators were killed and more than a dozen others were injured.
Students and educators have engaged in activism around the issue of gun violence, and some educators have quit the profession.
Some states in the south have seen the highest rate of school shootings relative to their populations since 2008, according to CNN’s analysis.
Washington, DC had the highest rate — 5 total shootings, more than 0.7 per 100,000 people — while Texas had the most overall with 56 school shootings. Meanwhile, just five states — Montana, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island — had no school shootings in that period, according to CNN’s analysis.