Robert Hansen is a reporter with the Sacramento Observer who covers local politics, homelessness, police, racism in education, and other social issues in the Sacramento region.
Paula Anderson was getting her young children ready for bed, looking at pictures with her 3-year-old daughter Azalya in her home in 2018 when gunshots rang out.
While Black people make up roughly 12.6% of Sacramento County’s population, they account for about 52% of all gun-related deaths from 2019 to 2023, according to an Observer analysis of coroner data.
