Six dead in California home shooting, including 6-month-old baby and her mother - Reuters

Jan 16 (Reuters) - Six radical including a six-month-old babe cradled successful the arms of her 17-year-old parent were changeable dormant astatine a location successful California's main cultivation vale connected Monday successful what authorities called a targeted onslaught and "horrific massacre."

Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux linked the killings to the amerciable cause trade, saying deputies had conducted a drug-related hunt warrant astatine the aforesaid location past week.

"We judge this was a connection being sent," Boudreaux told reporters astatine the scene. "We judge that this was a targeted family."

Two suspects remained astatine large, helium said.

Authorities responded aboriginal connected Monday aft aggregate shots were heard. Some victims were recovered successful the thoroughfare portion others were discovered successful the house.

One unfortunate was live and wounded erstwhile authorities arrived but aboriginal died astatine a hospital, Boudreaux said.

The attacks occurred successful Goshen, a workplace assemblage of 5,400 radical astir midway betwixt Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The bodies of the babe and 17-year-old parent were located successful a ditch extracurricular the home, Boudreaux aboriginal told the Los Angeles Times. Both had gunshot wounds to the head.

Several others were changeable successful the head, including an aged woman. Two women survived by hiding successful a trailer connected the property.

"I deliberation it's specifically connected to the cartel. The level of unit ... this was not your run-of-the-mill low-end pack member," Boudreaux told the newspaper.

"If (they) are specifically shooting everyone successful the head, they cognize what they are doing ... (and) they are comfy with what they are doing."

The paper reported that past week's hunt warrant resulted successful 1 apprehension and the seizure of guns, marijuana and methamphetamine.

Reporting by Kanishka Singh successful Washington Additional reporting by Daniel Trotta successful Carlsbad, Calif. Editing by Josie Kao and Matthew Lewis

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