India, Dec. 2 -- Amari Peterson has been identified as the first child victim of the Stockton birthday party mass shooting. The tragedy occurred Saturday at a banquet hall in California, leaving four people dead, including three children.

Amari Peterson was a 14-year-old Modesto resident and one of the children killed during the Nov. 29 shooting at a banquet hall on the 1900 block of Lucile Avenue in Stockton.

"My baby was innocent," Amari's mother Kim Peterson told the Stockton Record. "We were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Who would have known my baby wasn't gonna come home with me?"

A GoFundMe has been launched to support the family with funeral expenses.

The fundraiser describes Amari as "a bright, loved, and promisin...