ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

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Northern California Spree Shooting Update

The Tehama County assistant sheriff announced Wednesday morning that six people, including the gunman, were killed in a shooting rampage through a small Northern California town that left seven children injured. The gunman was shot to death by police yesterday.

Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said that it was a bizarre and murderous rampage. Johnston said. Several children were injured at the elementary school and taken to the hospital, but none of them were killed, fortunately.


Johnston said that investigators served a search warrant Tuesday night at the home of 44-year-old Kevin Neal (pictured above), who was identified by the sheriff's department as the shooter.

Officers were looking for Neal's wife at their home on Bobcat Lane, and during the service of the search warrant, her body was found hidden under the floor of the home, Johnston said. She had likely died as a result of several gunshot wounds. "We believe that's probably what started this whole event," Johnston said.

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