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At Least 4 Killed in Shooting in Northern California At Least 4 Killed in Shooting in Northern California
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A gunman rampaged through a small Northern California town on Tuesday, taking aim at people at an elementary school and several other locations, and killing at least four and wounding several others before he was fatally shot by the police, the local sheriff’s office said. Rampaging through a small Northern California town, a gunman took aim on Tuesday at people at an elementary school and several other locations, killing at least four and wounding at least 10 before he was fatally shot by police, the local sheriff’s office said.
There were at least seven separate shooting scenes in or near Rancho Tehama Reserve, an unincorporated community of about 1,500 people, Phil Johnston, assistant sheriff of Tehama County, told reporters. He declined to release the name of the killer, who he said was armed with a semiautomatic rifle and two handguns. There were at least seven separate shooting scenes in or near Rancho Tehama Reserve, an unincorporated community of about 1,500 people, Phil Johnston, assistant sheriff of Tehama County, told reporters. He said investigators were still trying to confirm the identity of the killer, who he said was armed with a semiautomatic rifle and two handguns.
“It was very clear early on that we had a subject that was randomly picking targets,” he said. “We are aware that there was a domestic violence incident as reported by neighbors involving the suspected shooter.” “It was very clear at the onset that we had a subject that was randomly picking targets,” he said.
At least two children were among the wounded. He said the number of people injured was unclear, but local hospitals reported treating seven people. “There was a neighborhood dispute ongoing,” he added, but beyond that, “we don’t know what the motives are for this individual to go on a shooting spree.”
Jeanine Quist, an administrator at the Corning Union Elementary School District, said that there were people injured at Rancho Tehama School, an elementary school, but that no one there was killed. At least two of the injured are children, officials said, and the dead are all adults.
Coy Ferreira said he was one of a group of terrified people who took shelter inside Rancho Tehama School, an elementary school, where bullets crashed through the window of the classroom he was in, wounding a boy. “There was gunshots going for a good 25 minutes,” he told KRCR, a television station.
He said he was walking his daughter to her kindergarten class at the school when they heard what he thought was a firecracker. When several more bangs followed, he said, “One of the teachers came running out of the building and told us all to run inside the building, there was a shooter.”
Jeanine Quist, an administrator at the Corning Union Elementary School District, confirmed that there were people injured at the school, but said no one there was killed.
Brian Flint told a group of reporters that a man staying in his house was one of those killed, some of his neighbors were among those who were shot.
He said that the gunman was a neighbor and said that he had threatened him, and had stabbed another neighbor, a woman, in a dispute earlier this year, and “I believe he was on bond because of that.”
“As far as we know he was, you know, crazy,” Mr. Flint said. “He shoots a lot of gun shots at night, in the morning, like a hundred rounds.”
He said he had let his roommate borrow his truck, and the man was returning it when he was shot in the driveway. “My truck was stolen, used in the crime,” he said.
Assistant Sheriff Johnston confirmed that gunman stole a white Ford F-150 pickup truck, and later stole a car. He said his office began getting 911 calls at 7:52 a.m. about gunshots on Bobcat Lane, about a mile south of the school.
“We have information that he did several random drive-by shootings of residences” before reaching the school, Mr. Johnston said. Among those injured were a woman and child riding in a pickup truck.
“She had no clue who he was or why,” he said. “She was driving her kids to school.”
He fired repeatedly at the school before driving off, and “he was fleeing from the area of the school when he was engaged” by the law enforcement officers who killed him, Mr. Johnston said.
The killer “is known to law enforcement, but I don’t know him to be a felon,” he added.
In a statement, Gov. Jerry Brown said: “Anne and I are saddened to hear about today’s violence in Tehama County, which shockingly involved schoolchildren. We offer our condolences to the families who lost loved ones and unite with all Californians in grief.”In a statement, Gov. Jerry Brown said: “Anne and I are saddened to hear about today’s violence in Tehama County, which shockingly involved schoolchildren. We offer our condolences to the families who lost loved ones and unite with all Californians in grief.”
A man who said he was a neighbor of the gunman told Action News Now, a group of local television stations, that his roommate was one of those killed. The gunman “has been shooting a lot of bullets lately, hundreds of rounds, large magazines,” he said. “He’s been threatening us.”
Rancho Tehama Reserve lies in a sparsely populated region of rolling hills between Redding and Chico, more than 100 miles north of Sacramento.Rancho Tehama Reserve lies in a sparsely populated region of rolling hills between Redding and Chico, more than 100 miles north of Sacramento.