His leg was badly shot up. "[9], The shootings renewed attention on the legality and control of ghost guns, such as the semi-automatic rifle used in this incident. That was a big mistake.". [9][10][8], After killing his neighbors, Neal stole a pickup truck that belonged to one of his victims. [1][37] Police said that, despite this, he illegally manufactured the guns he used in the shootings. On November 1314, 2017, a series of shootings occurred in Rancho Tehama, an unincorporated community in Tehama County, California, U.S. [32] Although Danny Elliott had meth in his system when Neal killed him and had been put on probation in 2016 for a misdemeanor charge of possessing drug paraphernalia, sheriff's deputies and California Fire officials said they never found evidence of a meth operation, despite multiple visits to Bobcat Lane. Several of those wounded that day say they feel forgotten. He told Tina to go home so she wouldnt get hurt. He manufactured the rifle and possessed the handguns in violation of that restraining order. It's hard for us to talk to her about it. Ten people suffered bullet wounds and eight were cut by flying glass caused by the gunfire. Sarah Gonzales had just dropped off her daughter, when the gunman blocked her car. Neal was known to authorities and had at least one prior arrest. The shooting finally ended after what authorities described as a 45-minute rampage through Rancho Tehama, a quiet reserve about 120 miles northwest of downtown Sacramento. Police killed the suspected shooter, Kevin Janson Neal. Medical professionals cut teeth and tissue out of the then-20-year-olds mouth. Police believe the gunman, Kevin Neal, was likely targeting the neighbor's son, a kindergartner at the school and anyone else who got in his way. They could see where shed been shot. "[The board] promised lots and lots of good stuff, but it turns out they are not really covering all those things and no real help coming from them," he says. Government programs have provided minimal long-term financial assistance, according to several people affected by the shooting who said they also were not provided sufficient access to mental health treatment. David said that after Neal murdered the mother and son, Neal killed their neighbor, Joseph Edward McHugh III, then stole his truck before driving down the road, shooting at cars and homes as he made his way to Rancho Tehama Elementary School. RANCHO TEHAMA -- "The guy was a bad guy. He never went back to Rancho Tehama Elementary School after that day, when he and approximately 100 other students were locked down after staffers heard gunfire nearby and quickly hustled them in from recess. When Kevin Janson Neal, 44, began what authorities described as a "murderous rampage" in a neighborhood in Tehama County about 130 miles north of Sacramento, his father, his father's girlfriend . Casualties: Killed Targeted shootings: Barbara Ann Glisan (aka Gilsan), 38 (Neal's wife, shot at their home) Danny Lee Elliott, 38 (Neal's neighbor, shot at home) [17], Victims' families were left struggling to pay for medical expenses and some turned to online fundraisers.[5][34]. Dykes also showed where Michelle Iris McFadyen was killed on the side of the road. TEHAMA COUNTY, Calif. (KCRA) The Tehama County assistant sheriff announced Wednesday morning that six people, including the gunman, were killed in a shooting rampage through a small Northern . Neal obliged, turning his assault-style rifle Sanders direction and firing like 60 times, Sanders said. Like Gage, Sanders son also was at Rancho Tehama Elementary when Neal arrived after shooting multiple people on his way from Bobcat Lane. As… Continue reading Kevin Janson Neal: Rancho . The New York Post reports the following day, he donned a ballistic vest, grabbed a semiautomatic rifle and two handguns and went on a 45-minute rampage across Rancho Tehama Reserve. "It was clear that he was experimenting with building guns at home outside the law.". Entrance to Danny Elliott and Diane Steeles home. 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In reply to Jeff Gorder. Another young man, Dale Dykes, showed where Neal was shot and killed by officers, just a short distance down the road from where Sanders lives. The shooting in Rancho Tehama simply couldnt compete. School officials heard gunshots and made a critical decision to lock it down. He was driven down by the gas station at the entrance of the Ranch where he sat inside the car for an hour. A collection of painted stones left at the memorial. So I walked over to get a picture. She's used to the echo of gunfire in this rural community. Photos by Steve DuBois.). And if they did he should have been supervised with an ankle [bracelet] or something! 2023 anewscafe.com. By the time 44-year-old Kevin Neal was finally stopped fatally shot by officers Neal had killed five people and injured 18. "I feel like they and the sheriff's office were setting me up for failure.". Four years after a gunman shot up her high school, a young journalist finds herself writing about mass shootings again. More and more, its also the kind of place where some residents no longer feel safe, and are no longer surprised when they leave their homes to return to find them broken into and/or vandalized. Kevin Neal killed five people and wounded at least a dozen others before he was shot and killed by authorities in Rancho Tehama Reserve, Calif. Tuesday. Neal, 44, fatally shot his wife late Monday, Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said at a press conference Wednesday. First published on November 15, 2017 / 7:10 AM. At first it was like, well, we can give you this and that help-you-move-wise, but then youve got to worry about your rent and all your other big bills, Woods Sr. said. Those who were killed and wounded ranged in age from 6 to 68. Realtor Wilson says police should have been more vigilant. And the month before, in Americas deadliest mass shooting, a gunman massacred a crowd of festival-goers in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and leaving more than 850 others injured. Sheriffs officials said Neal, 44, probably killed her the day before the mass shooting. Kevin Neal, 43, was facing a number of police charges when he went on the rampage in California earlier today. On Nov. 14, 2017, a shooter killed five people and wounded several others in the rural Northern California town of Rancho Tehama. [36], On January 31, 2017, Neal was arrested and charged with two felonies, and five misdemeanors, after stabbing neighbor Hailey Poland, assaulting her mother-in-law, and snatching a mobile phone away from them. A patchwork of country homesteads and double-wides, Rancho Tehama Reserves spare core features little more than a baby-blue post office with matching recreation center and homeowners association office, a gas station, a shuttered pizzeria and a cracked asphalt airstrip. Armed with at least three guns and a ballistic vest, the shooter began his rampage just before 8 a.m., killing two of his neighbors. Parents and school officials are thankful, yet still deeply shaken; some of the wounded feel forgotten and misled; many residents feel the police dropped the ball and say officers should have kept a closer eye on a troubled man whose life was clearly spiraling out of control. He opened fire near his home on Bobcat Lane in Rancho Tehama then drove off. Ive never had them. They also received some short-term assistance from Tehama County and about $55,000 from a GoFundMe drive. On his way through the town, he shot a woman . As the truck came to a stop Neal fired at the officers, who exchanged heavy gunfire with him. Two of the shots hit the 6-year-old boy in his chest and leg. A man reported that his truck was stolen and his roommate was shot and . I think its the desensitization to these events that leads to people wanting to move on, he said. Miles of rolling fields blanketed in faded wild oats and yellow starthistle line the gently curving roads into this isolated enclave an hours drive south of Redding. Sanders yelled at Neal, calling him names and demanding the gunman shoot him instead of the children. The. For those who were shot, it paid for medical bills. Shooter Kevin Neal threatened out loud that he was going to kill Danny Elliott and then go to the elementary school to kill Elliott's 7-year-old son, said Johnny Phommathep, a neighbor who li How are we still in the exact same place? The attack in Rancho Tehama, . There are terrific days and we're all so thankful," she says. It was gone, gone. In reply to R.V. [13][14][15] Neal crashed the pickup truck through the front gates of the school. There's a sense that deputies here failed to stop a man that appeared troubled and who was sporadically violent: he had attacked and stabbed his neighbor. Sanders, a father himself, said he was moved to tears one day last week when his son the one Neal may have driven to Rancho Tehama Elementary School to kill got onto a school bus and shouted, My dads a hero!. They said everyone knew it, including law enforcement. I mean really. Finally, help arrived for her when law enforcement drove up Rancho Tehama Road toward the Ranch and they saw that Nai Phommathep was in need of help, and took care of her and the children on the side of the road. I went to my car, got my camera, and was distracted by the town flag I saw flying at half staff across the road. 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This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. He was bleeding out. [1][8] His motive remains unclear. Rancho Tehama is 45 miles from my Redding home. At one point, Elliott asked Sanders to move out, because he believed Sanders presence inflamed the feud, and the situation needed to calm down. I just went to a peaceful place and I just think 'I just died,'" he says. "They should have never allowed him to get bailed. [1] He handed over a single pistol and attested that he had no other guns. . What he failed to realize was Neal had walked up the ramp and was near the schools door. Cardenas says pledges of help to cover some medical costs transportation, medicine, mental health care have yet to materialize from the sheriff's office and the California victim's compensation board. The sound startled her, but she couldnt identify it, so she wasnt worried. The Tehama County Sheriff's Office identified the five people killed by Rancho Tehama shooter Kevin Neal. A bullet hole is seen in an exterior wall at the Rancho Tehama Elementary School on Nov. 15, 2017. The Tehama County Sheriff's Office identified the five people killed by Rancho Tehama shooter Kevin Neal. Kevin Janson Neal shot Woods in the face during the 2017 rampage. On Nov. 14, 2017, a shooter killed five people and wounded several others in the rural Northern California town of Rancho Tehama. He then stole their truck, and began driving toward a nearby elementary school -- shooting randomly at people along the way. She told how, as she drove up the road toward home, she saw her brother Sanders walking along the road. The truck became stuck in the gate. He attacked my school," Johnston said. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. He targeted seven locations in the rural community of Rancho Tehama, including an elementary school that went on lockdown before he came in. Jessie said it was the type of experience people talk about when theyre dying. But just below the surface it's clear people here are still grappling with the aftermath of a local man's murderous rampage nearly three months ago that killed five and wounded 12 others. The smaller ones often received far less. Nov 15, 2017, 03:54 PM EST. He'd made threats. [5][18][25][26][27][28] The victims included two students at Rancho Tehama Elementary School and Michelle McFadyen's husband. [16] One student hiding under a classroom desk was shot and injured by a bullet that penetrated a wall. Ferreira ran onto the playground, picked up the little girl and rushed her into the classroom. The killing of the woman, whose name has not been released, raises the death toll to five at the hands of suspect Kevin Janson Neal, 43, who also is dead. This is an especially complicated story made even more complicated by eight crime scenes. Rancho Tehamas small private airport runway is between the school and where Sanders moved in with his mother after Elliott asked him to leave for the sake of their safety. Two women embrace outside Rancho Tehama Elementary School, where a gunman opened fire Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in Corning, Calif. He said he saw flashes before his eyes with memories of his life the good things hed done, and the bad. But what Neal didnt know was Sanders son had switched to another school. He stays at home, he has an Oculus [virtual reality headset], and he has a computer, and he does that and thats basically it.. Methinks this explains wee Patrick's attempt to change the oath for county employees. "Everyone's got their antennas up. Gregg Cohen, told the Sacramento Bee he is prosecuting a man named Kevin Neal in that case. [2] The community is located 120 miles (190 kilometers) northwest of Sacramento, 25 miles (40km) southwest of Red Bluff, and 25 miles (40km) northwest of Corning. Neal shot and killed four other people and wounded 10 at different locations around the rural community of Rancho Tehama Reserve. The area has a variety of wildlife with scattered domestic cattle grazing. Steve DuBois lives in Redding. Neighbors complained to police about Neal firing guns from his property, but whenever sheriff's deputies visited his doorstep, Neal would not respond to their knocking. He targeted seven locations in the rural community of Rancho Tehama, including an . Some people may consider moving away. Jessie Sanders was grazed by one of Kevin Neals bullets. James Woods Jr. was driving near Rancho Tehama Elementary with his father, James Woods Sr., in the passenger seat on Nov. 14, 2017, when Neal opened fire on their car. Sarah Lobdell is the secretary at Rancho Tehama Elementary School. On Wednesday, California investigators announced that Kevin Neal, a gunman who killed four people in a series of shootings on Tuesday, may have begun his deadly rampage by murdering his wife. Coy Ferreira, left, and Jessie Sanders remain shaken by the traumatic events that happened in their town one week ago. Officers grabbed Sanders and made him take off his shirt, shoes and socks. hide caption. Its the attention [shootings] get or dont get that prompts the outpourings of support. Steele and Elliott lived two doors down from Neal, who murdered the pair last Tuesday. We're not sure how.". He was riding in a car with his son when Kevin Janson Neal opened fire. RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Calif. James Woods Sr., 47, at a park in Rancho Tehama Reserve. . Sanders seemed like an open guy who talks as if he has a positive outlook on life. It's evident in a response that seems to linger somewhere between regret and resignation. 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Wythe said he was in his camper with Sammy, Bruehls dog, when he heard gunshots, something he said is common in this region, and not usually a cause for alarm. 2017 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. In 2017, this census-designated place with fewer than 2,000 residents made national headlines in the same way as towns like Newtown, Conn., Parkland, Fla., and Uvalde, Texas. He was watching television, and didnt hear anything until the gunman was trying to leave. Neal's mother told The Associated Press her son, who was a marijuana . Tehama County Sheriff's Department. Ferreira said that about 7:57, about two minutes after the father and daughter had left the office, they heard shooting. [29][8] A neighbor later said he believed Neal might have been testing the response time of law enforcement. RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Calif. (AP) A Northern California man killed two neighbors with whom he had been feuding before he went on a shooting . Woods Jr. first filed for state victim compensation this year. Ferreira said that as he started to move away from the window, shots rang out, bursting through the glass and passing through the wall beneath the very windows hed looked through seconds earlier. That was the fifth-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Yet Kevin Neal was free and able to use a semi-automatic rifle . [7] His neighbors, 38-year-old Danny Elliott and 68-year-old Diana Steele with whom he had had previous conflicts, were his first two killings on November 14. Lobdell shuns talk of her heroism that day in favor of words like "training" and "instinct. "The quick action of those school officials. We were helping with that for a good two years afterward.. But theres no end in sight for the psychological misery and financial troubles left behind. He fired repeatedly at the locked-down doors, windows and walls. Every bullet missed but the one that grazed his arm. It's a question many here ask: couldn't more have been done to stop this, to at least enforce the restraining order against the gunman? Sanders later surmised that when officers saw him, they erroneously thought he may have been a second shooter. He was rude to our officers, but that's not a crime.". Miss Nelson yelled at Ferreira to get away from the window. No one, Johnston says, seemed to see Neal shooting a weapon. Cardenas was eventually airlifted to a hospital. May 21, 2021. One of the stolen vehicles, a white truck with bullet holes in the windshield, was removed from the area Tuesday night, reports CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas. Police Find Body Of Tehama County Gunman's Wife, Making His Death Toll 5. Bruehl said Neal had an AK-47, and he and Wythe were both wondering where the cops were. The younger Woods was hospitalized for more than a week. Sanders said Neal actually shot guns toward them on several occasions, but Neal would lie and say theyd been shooting at him. Tehama County district attorney confirms the suspected shooter, Kevin Janson Neal, was killed by police. One of them.". His neighbors complained regularly that Neal was firing off rounds day and night. (Rancho Tehama lacks a police or sheriffs department, and, for that matter, a medical facility.). They asked that the public keeps its focus on the victims. [20] A passerby, unaware of the shootings, stopped his car and asked Neal if he was okay; Neal shot and wounded him, stole his car, and continued the rampage, killing another person. Sanders said that he and Elliott were both threatened by Neal at various times, as were both of their young sons. But months before that, Hailey Poland had survived a vicious attack at his hands and worried that things . Finally, someone informed the officers theyd arrested the wrong guy; that Sanders was the hero from the school, which sorted everything out. Sanders said he tried to intervene and stop Neal, but that Neals wife actually got upset with Sanders and told him to mind his own business. Some believe that it was during that time period that Neal shot the McFadyens and stole his last vehicle from Jonah Bongcayo after chasing him with gunfire. Troy McFadyen was injured, and his wife Michelle McFadyen was killed. He was 7 years old. One bullet hit the vehicles metal frame near the windshield, producing a piece of shrapnel that lacerated Woods Sr.s face near his left eye. Kevin Janson Neal, who on Tuesday went on a killing spree that left four people dead and 10 injured in northern California, also shot and killed his wife the prior night, officials say. Hencratt is named among the defendants, which include Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston, Tehama County Sheriff's Office, Tehama County, the estate of Neal and the Rancho Tehama Association. Less than four months after the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in 2016, a Florida nonprofit announced that it alone had raised more than $9 million for victims, including $100,000 from GoFundMe itself. The more I heard, the more I learned about this isolated place surrounded by barren hillsides that less than 1,500 people call home. A gunmans deadly rampage through rural Rancho Tehama on Tuesday was stopped when police rammed his vehicle and exchanged shots in a fierce gun battle, authorities said. [11] In total, deputies were called to Neal's Bobcat Lane home 21 times for various reasons in 2016 and 2017. [14], Despite widespread criticism of the Sheriff's Department's handling of the case, incumbent Sheriff Dave Hencratt was the winner of the June 2018 primary race with 63.96 percent of the vote. I have the California victim compensation through Sacramento, he said, so Im kind of waiting on that. That gave the school a few more critical seconds to go into complete lockdown mode. At that point, a little girl around the age of 5 was so paralyzed with fear that she was unable to move from the playground. Wythe thought it was about 10 minutes. [18][8] A woman was also shot when she attempted to distract Neal from the school. That just didn't happen for us in this case," he says.