SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. _ She knew this summer it was time to leave San Bernardino.
Regina Bejarano was born in the city. So were her mom, her kids, her grandkids. She could probably drive through its neighborhoods with her eyes closed, she says.
But San Bernardino stopped being home on Aug. 31, the night two people walked up to the gate of her apartment with what she figures was a 9 mm handgun and a .22-caliber rifle, and unloaded on her family.
The bullets hit her 19-year-old son, Kyle, her 25-year-old goddaughter and a 23-year-old friend. One went through a cluster of gold star stickers on the wall of her daughter's room.
It was a miracle they all survived, Bejarano said.
But ever since, her five kids and two grandchildren have slept in the back rooms of her small apartment. Her sons stopped going to school out of fear of being attacked again.
After the shooting, she searched online for cabins in the mountains and rentals in Rialto and Fontana.
Two months later, on the day before Halloween, she was still trying to figure out how to make it work.
She came home that day about 9 p.m. and went into her bedroom to lie down.
Joseph, her 17-year-old _ the one everyone called Joe Joe _ left without her noticing.
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