As the hunt to find the killers who engineered the massacre at a children’s birthday party in Stockton enters its sixth day, San Joaquin County Sheriff Patrick Withrow says he’s “excited about how well things are going,” even though no suspects have been publicly identified.
He said he understands that partygoers were running for their lives and protecting others amid the hail of gunfire Saturday night, but he was hoping more clues would have emerged from the scores of guests who attended the gathering.
In an exclusive interview Wednesday evening, Withrow told Stocktonia that he’s encouraged by the assistance his office is receiving from the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Stockton Police Department; San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office investigators; and the U.S. Attorney’s Office — to name just a few of the outside agencies helping the Sheriff’s Office. He said “solid information” is arriving via tip lines…