Brandon Hernandez was making repairs behind his north Stockton home when bullets punctured his garage — and one sailed clear through the house, from front wall to rear window. Wii Dao heard cracks that sounded like fireworks and cars roaring through the streets. And William Hendricks returned home from a family trip to Oregon to find “hordes of officers everywhere.”
All three men live in the eclectic, 1950s neighborhood surrounding Lucile Avenue, a grassy community some residents said had experienced some respite from deadly violence in recent years — until Saturday night, when a mass shooting at a child’s birthday party showered the neighborhood with gunfire.
Some who spoke to Stocktonia had vivid memories of past shootings, including a teen’s death in Sandman Park and an infamous bank robbery and deadly police shootout on nearby Thornton Road…