As Stockton mourns the four young people killed in Saturday’s mass shooting, local health officials issued a public caution against addressing violence with more violence.
County health officials circulated that call, along with mental health crisis and violence prevention resources, in response to the gunfire that ripped through a child’s birthday party in north Stockton over the weekend, injuring 13 and killing four — Susano Archuleta, age 21; Amari Peterson, 14; and cousins Maya Lupian and Journey Rose Guerrero, both 8 years old.
“It is normal to be angry,” said Genevieve Valentine, director of San Joaquin County’s Health Care Services Agency. “It is normal to be in denial. It is normal to try to reconcile what the hell just happened.”…