According to the local sheriff, six people, including a six-month-old baby and his 17-year-old mother, were shot and killed early Monday in California, according to AFP.

“We do not believe this was a random act of violence,” Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreau said at a news conference. Two suspects are being sought.

According to the sheriff, the house where the “horrific massacre” took place was searched a week earlier as a result of drug seizures.

According to the sheriff, gangs that are probably involved in the drug trade are “connected” to the attack.

Shortly before 4 a.m. local time Monday, police responded to a shooting in a residential area of ​​Goshen, a small town in California’s Central Valley.

When they arrived, they found two lifeless bodies in the street before discovering four more people who had been shot, all of whom died of their injuries, the sheriff said.

The six-month-old baby and his mother were wounded in the head, he added.

“This was not indiscriminate violence,” the sheriff said, without releasing details about the two suspects or their motives.

In 2021, about 49,000 people died from firearms in the United States. This means more than 130 deaths per day, more than half of which are suicides.

The country has more single guns than people: one in three adults owns at least one gun, and nearly one in two adults live in a household with a gun.