hide caption. 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. I spoke with Sanders sister Tina, and a man named Jose, uncle of the 6-year-old boy shot while he was at school Tuesday, huddled on the floor, too afraid to move from the danger of his classroom to the safety of a teachers storage room. 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 Two of the shots hit the 6-year-old boy in his chest and leg. When she heard the shots last November, she immediately called for every child and teacher to get inside and go into lock down mode. Both Ferreira and Sanders also saw Troy McFadyen, shot in the leg, sitting on the road beside his deceased wife. He said the look of fear in his sisters eyes was frightening. Kevin Neal, 43, was facing a number of police charges when he went on the rampage in California earlier today. He was driven down by the gas station at the entrance of the Ranch where he sat inside the car for an hour. Entrance to Danny Elliott and Diane Steeles home. Law enforcement arrived and a shootout ensued. By the time I walked back to the gas station, Jim had gotten off work and was gone. Sanders said thatthe night Neal murdered his wife Neal called the pizza place where his wife worked and said that if management didnt let his wife come home, hed come down and kill everyone in the place. The Tehama County Sheriff's Office identified the five people killed by Rancho Tehama shooter Kevin Neal. It is being reported that Kevin Janson Neal, the suspect in the case of the horrific Rancho Tehama School shooting is the same man who was arrested earlier this year for an assault against an elderly person that resulted in likely "great bodily injury.". 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. When they got out, Neal shot them, killing one. [38] The two handguns that Neal possessed during his shooting rampage were not registered to him. [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. The sound startled her, but she couldnt identify it, so she wasnt worried. Kevin Neal killed four people, injured ten others. After getting out on bail for the stabbing, the gunman was slapped with a temporary restraining order or TRO. This time, however, Wythe noticed that the gunshot sounds were coming up the road, toward him. Everything happened so fast that the details in those moments are sketchy for Sanders, but he said that in retrospect he thinks another car tried to ram the stolen truck, which may have caused Neal to drive away. Even the GoFundMe to help cover medical care for the 6-year-old who was shot in the chest raised just $27,290. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) James Woods Jr. was driving near Rancho Tehama Elementary with his father, James Woods Sr., in . That morning, his father and paternal grandmother, who were raising him together in a modest house at the end of a gravel road, were gunned down during a mass shooting across this remote north-central California community. "Well there was no direct violation of the TRO that we could sink our teeth into for sure," he says. And we all strongly agree that", "It is very tough. To many in town, hes a hero, though he says he dislikes the term. When he stopped firing, she says he continued toward the school. Its a place with so few public services that the volunteer fire department is the most official entity. 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All rights reserved. Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. "It hurt. On his way through the town, he shot a woman . Neal went on a 25-minute tear through the community, starting just down the road from his home, where he killed his neighbor and two men, then stole a Ford F-150 pickup and drove north, said Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston. They were the second and third people shot to death by Neal, who lived in a light-blue mobile home barely 100 yards from their property. A cemetery posted a personal ad for a goose whose mate died. Cardenas says he's exploring his legal options. Kevin Janson Neal. Hes lived for several years now in a dilapidated mobile home by the airstrip. Sanders felt enraged, and shouted to Neal to shoot in his direction, hoping to distract him from the kids. Rancho Tehama Reserve. Jessie Sanders was grazed by one of Kevin Neals bullets. I also got to meet Jessie Allen Sanders, the man whos been called a hero that day at the elementary school for putting himself in danger to help save lives. He also had been shot by deputies just a hundred yards up the road from Mike K.'s house. Here's when they take effect", "Tehama County shooting update: Gunman's wife found dead", "Shooting rampage in California highlights "ghost guns" and their dangers", "Tehama County certifies final June election results", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rancho_Tehama_shootings&oldid=1140470783, Barbara Ann Glisan (aka Gilsan), 38 (Neal's wife, shot at their home), Danny Lee Elliott, 38 (Neal's neighbor, shot at home), Diana Lee Steele, 68 (Elliott's mother, shot at home), Joseph Edward McHugh III, 56 (unknown location), Michelle Iris McFadyen, 55 (killed in vehicle crash), Tiffany Nai Phommathep, 31 (shot in vehicle), John Phommathep Jr., 10 (Tiffany's son, shot in vehicle), Jake Phommathep, 6 (Tiffany's son, shot in vehicle), Jessie Allen Sanders, 39 (shot near elementary school), Francisco Gudino Cardenas (shot in vehicle), Alejandro Hernandez, 6 (shot at elementary school), Troy Lee McFadyen, 59 (Michelle McFadyen's husband, shot near vehicle), This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 05:56. Sanders said he and Neal made eye contact, and realized they knew each other. Her son his nephew was a Rancho Tehama Elementary School student. Sanders said he knows he probably needs years of therapy and mental health treatment, but his anxiety and emotions kept him from going to see the therapists who were made available in Rancho Tehama immediately after the incident. Yikes!! "He pretty much stopped me and shot at me three times through his windshield," Gonzales said. Rancho Tehama Reserve, where five people were killed and 14 others wounded in a shooting in November 2017. But we try to, you know, communicate with her the best we can. [29][1] The first shooting report to 9-1-1 was placed at 7:54a.m., and Neal died at 8:19a.m.a duration of 25 minutes. One student was wounded by gunfire and a second by flying glass. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. Ferreira said that about 7:57, about two minutes after the father and daughter had left the office, they heard shooting. Among the injured was a 6-year-old boy, shot while inside his classroom. As Ferreira told this part of the story, he was so overcome with emotion that I didnt feel comfortable asking more about what happened in the storage room. . The smaller ones often received far less. Because it feels mostly peaceful where he lives, hell stay. [5] In addition, seven children suffered injuries from shattered glass. Sanders got into his sisters car and the pair rushed toward the school. The. . That was the fifth-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. A shootout ensued, and Neal was killed. This Jan. 31, 2017 photo provided by the Tehama County Sheriff's Office shows Kevin Janson Neal, who authorities have identified as the gunman behind a rampage in Northern California. Kevin Janson Neal shot Woods in the face during the 2017 rampage. Over two days, according to the FBI, five people were slain and 14 others were wounded, including five children at Rancho Tehama Elementary School, before the gunman, 44-year-old Kevin Janson Neal, took his own life. They watched Neal release the truck from the fence and then speed off, firing more gunshot rounds as he left. During the shooting spree, five people were killed and eighteen others were injured at eight separate crime scenes, including an elementary school. Neal then fired eight rounds into a Ford F-250 occupied by a woman and her son, who was headed to school. Sanders said that while living with Elliott and Steele, there were several confrontations between his housemates and Neal. But, Flannery added, the support that people need over time is just as important as the support needed at the time of the crisis.. He'd made threats. Neal obliged, turning his assault-style rifle Sanders direction and firing like 60 times, Sanders said. Sanders said Neal actually shot guns toward them on several occasions, but Neal would lie and say theyd been shooting at him. The shooting in Rancho Tehama simply couldnt compete. [9][10][8], After killing his neighbors, Neal stole a pickup truck that belonged to one of his victims. The injured included six adults and six children. And if they did he should have been supervised with an ankle [bracelet] or something! I think its the desensitization to these events that leads to people wanting to move on, he said. The boy suffered non-life-threatening wounds, but the mother was seriously injured, Johnston said. "On every occasion we responded, asking 'did you actually see him firing a gun?' Realtor Wilson says police should have been more vigilant. "They should have never allowed him to get bailed. 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. He heard his daughters teacher, Miss Nelson, yelling loudly for all the kids to get inside NOW! By then it was about 7:58 to 7:59 a.m. Officers recovered one semi- automatic rifle and two handguns. He was 7 years old. He fired repeatedly at the locked-down doors, windows and walls. He ran toward the gunfire, he said, drawing Neals attention just as the shooter was about to step through a broken window into a classroom filled with cowering children. Before joining The Times in 2016, she reported on crime and policing for the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. Francisco Cardenas was driving to the post office a few minutes from his house that morning when he was caught between deputies in hot pursuit and the shooter. [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. Doha Madani. Tehama County Sheriff / AP file Link copied 2017 . Ten people suffered bullet wounds and eight were cut by flying glass caused by the gunfire. It ripped his world, said Feitelberg, who moved her grandson out of Rancho Tehama Reserve after the shooting. Two women embrace outside Rancho Tehama Elementary School, where a gunman opened fire Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in Corning, Calif. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. According to Sanders sister, Tina, when Neal got close to the school again, he crashed the vehicle he was driving into another vehicle just a short distance down the road from Sanders mothers home. David, Elliotts stepbrother, said that his fatherless step-nephew is now living with the boys maternal grandmother. The 35-year-old tree trimmer is now unemployed and, for now, unable to work because of his wounds. He was riding in a car with his son when Kevin Janson Neal opened fire. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. Kevin Neal. He then drove up to the driver's side, and fired into it, injuring all of them with gunshots or flying glass. Gage never spent another night in that house on Bobcat Lane where he once played in the yard with his father. [29] Ghost guns are currently legal to manufacture in California, but the terms of Neal's restraining order made it illegal for him to possess them, or any other guns. "Absolutely not," Johnston says, adding, "There was no big red flag with this guy other than he was not law enforcement friendly. He exited the vehicle with a self-assembled AR-15-type semi-automatic rifle, ran into the center of the school's quadrangle, and fired repeatedly at windows and walls. 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. May 21, 2021. His neighbors complained regularly that Neal was firing off rounds day and night. A man who saw the crash pulled over to help, and Neal shot at him. How are we still in the exact same place? Lobdell's fast action likely averted a massacre. She's used to the echo of gunfire in this rural community. The gunman, identified by the Sacramento Bee and members of the Rancho Tehama, as Kevin Janson Neal, 44, shot both inside and outside Rancho Tehama Elementary School, Johnston said. Eric Westervelt/NPR His neighbors had complained he had fired multiple rounds for days before this rampage that ended up at this elementary school. Bruehl said Neal had an AK-47, and he and Wythe were both wondering where the cops were. Rancho Tehama is a remote, sparsely populated, rural unincorporated community in Tehama County, California, that had a population of 1,485 in 2010. The retired contractor didn't want his full name used. A GoFundMe set up after the shooting to help the Woods family raised less than $6,000. Sanders said he told told both Gilsan and Neal that he could mind his own business if theyd take it inside, but he couldnt watch a man beating a woman without trying to stop it. Unknown then to the school, Neal already had shot and killed his wife and two of his neighbors before driving to the school that morning loaded with ammo and several semi-automatic weapons. 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. According to Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston, the wife of 44-year-old Neal was found under the floorboards of his home as part of Continue reading Body Of Rancho Tehama Shooter Kevin . He was arrested and jailed in Tehama County, but Neal made a $160,000 bail and was freed, allowing him to return . A memorial near a fire station in Rancho Tehama Reserve honors the victims of the 2017 mass shooting. We were helping with that for a good two years afterward.. Several of those wounded that day say they feel forgotten. Neal was known to authorities and had at least one prior arrest. First published on November 15, 2017 / 7:10 AM. "With how violent he was and his record they should have came and made sure his guns were gone," parent Sandra Wells says, echoing criticism heard from many residents here. 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[10][4] Following his release, Neal continued to harass the neighbors, causing them to successfully seek a restraining order that required him to surrender his firearms and not purchase additional guns. He has not, and he will not, talk about his father. I just went to a peaceful place and I just think 'I just died,'" he says. Nov 15, 2017, 03:54 PM EST. Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said that the body of Kevin Janson Neal's wife was found under the floor in their home and her murder is "what started this whole event." Sanders and Ferreira both said that when Neal rammed the gate, John, the schools custodian/bus driver, peeked around the corner toward the shots. His life changed that day forever. Sanders said that encounter started a feud, and that over time, bad blood boiled. Officers then opened fire and killed him. And it paid for all the funerals other than the shooters, he said. Elliott was Sanders best friend, so it was emotionally difficult for Sanders to speak about Elliott as he shared some background. Coy Ferreira, left, and Jessie Sanders remain shaken by the traumatic events that happened in their town one week ago. Either way, during the shooting Tina drove her car up to the school with Sanders as people were rushing away, telling them to get out of there. But they still have to rip all my teeth out, and then I have to do a bone graft.. "I used to really believe that my job and being a law enforcement officer was to help protect people and I believe that I can't control that. The community will try to move forward. He said he saw flashes before his eyes with memories of his life the good things hed done, and the bad. [1][37] Police said that, despite this, he illegally manufactured the guns he used in the shootings. Four years after a gunman shot up her high school, a young journalist finds herself writing about mass shootings again. All of it, all of his problems are from this incident in Tehama.. Some media reported that police believe Neal went home after he left the school, and took off in yet another stolen vehicle. They tried to get him to remove his pants, but he wasnt wearing shorts and refused to remove his jeans. I talked with many people that day. The attack in Rancho Tehama, population just over 1,400, was among the more than 300 mass shootings in America last year in which four or more persons were wounded or killed. That just didn't happen for us in this case," he says. The motive for the shooting is still unclear. [11] They were taken to Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Saint Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff,[33] Mercy Medical Center in Redding, or UC Davis Medical Center in Davis for treatment. From the police logs on February 2, 2017:. He opened fire near his home on Bobcat Lane in Rancho Tehama then drove off. [5][18][25][26][27][28] The victims included two students at Rancho Tehama Elementary School and Michelle McFadyen's husband.
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