Investigators believe a gunman's deadly shooting spree in northern California started with him killing his wife and hiding her body inside their home.
Authorities say the wife of a gunman who went on a shooting rampage in a Northern California town was found dead inside their home.
Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston says investigators found the body of Kevin Janson Neal’s wife hidden under the floor. Investigators believe the killing of his wife, likely on Monday evening, was the start of the rampage.
Neal then hid her gunshot riddled body in the floor of their home.
Authorities say Neal shot and killed four other people and wounded 10 others at different locations around the rural community of Rancho Tehama Reserve. Police later shot and killed him.
Shooter ID’d as Kevin Jansen Neal. Tehama Co Sheriff: he killed his wife, likely Monday evening, and hid her gunshot riddled body in the floor of their home. Tuesday morning was his 25-min rampage ending in his & 4 victims’ deaths. #RanchoTehamaShooting @ABC10 pic.twitter.com/OJMsus1621
Neal was out on bail after being charged with stabbing a neighbor and had been the subject of a domestic violence call the day before.
Neighbors also said they repeatedly reported to police that he had been firing off hundreds of rounds of ammunition day and night.
Yet Kevin Neal was free and able to use a semiautomatic rifle and two handguns Tuesday to shoot 14 people, killing four, before he died in a shootout with police.
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