BAKERSFIELD, CALIF.—A gunman killed five people, including his wife, before turning the gun on himself as a Kern County sheriff’s deputy closed in Wednesday, authorities said. The man first showed up at a trucking business with his wife shortly before 5:30 p.m. where he confronted another man. Article Continued BelowThe gunman then went to a home where he shot and killed a man and a woman, the sheriff said. The woman and child escaped and the man drove to a highway where a sheriff’s deputy saw him, Youngblood said. When the deputy confronted him at gunpoint the man shot himself in the chest, the sheriff said.

Source: thestar September 13, 2018 09:45 UTC