Mass shooting leaves 3 women and 1 man dead in the Mojave Desert

MOJAVE, Calif. — Tina Hayden took in the scene. A dirt lot. Mounds of scrap metal and trash. A trailer and two decaying recreational vehicles, inside of which three women and a man had been shot to death 12 hours earlier.

“They’re all on crystal meth,” Hayden said. “This is all part of drugs, sad to say.”

Hayden had come Monday morning to the end of H Street in Mojave to see the place where her friend’s daughter had been killed.

Kern County sheriff’s deputies had been called to the barren property