On Tuesday, Neal shot and killed the 34-year-old woman before embarking on what authorities called a “murderous rampage” through a neighbourhood in Tehama County about 130 miles (209 kilometres) north of Sacramento. Neal killed five people and wounded at least eight others before sheriff’s deputies fatally shot him during a gun battle, Johnston said. At Wednesday’s news conference, Johnston initially said Neal “was not prohibited from owning firearms” but later acknowledged the protective order against him. Police found the bullet-riddled body of Neal’s wife stuffed under the floorboards of their home in the rural community of Rancho Tehama Reserve. During the rampage that lasted 25 minutes, Neal tried and failed to get into Rancho Tehama Elementary School, but fired into the school from the outside.

Source: National Post November 16, 2017 08:15 UTC