WARNING!: Description below may be disturbing to some readers.

Mass/spree shootings have been a heated topic within American news in recent years.  This view shows the gates by the Rancho Tehama Elementary School in the unincorporated community of Rancho Tehama, California.  On the night of November 13, 2017, 44 year-old Kevin Janson Neal lived in a nearby home when he shot his wife, Barbara Glisan (also spelled Gilsan) and hid her body under some floorboards.  The next day he went on a shooting rampage in the neighborhood, first killing a man and a woman, both neighbors with whom he had an ongoing feud over their suspected methamphetamine dealing.  Neal had two alleged felonies & five misdemeanors prior to the start of his murders.

After killing his neighbors, Neal stole a pickup truck that belonged to one of his victims.  He then began firing at random vehicles and pedestrians.  At an intersection, he bumped the truck into a vehicle carrying a woman and her three sons. He then drove up to the driver's side, and fired into it, injuring all of them with gunshots or flying glass.  The woman was shot five times, four near her heart.  She was carrying a gun and had a license to carry, but she was unable to shoot at Neal because he drove away quickly.  She stopped four motorists to help her get to the hospital, but they drove off. She finally received aid from an assistant deputy sheriff who called for an ambulance.

Here at Rancho Tehama Elementary School, Sarah Lobdell, the school's secretary, heard the gunfire near the school and quickly ordered the school to go on lockdown. A school custodian and the teachers put it into action.  Neal crashed the pickup truck through these front gates of the school.  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.  One of Neal's neighbors later claimed that Neal was targeting the seven-year-old son of the neighbor he killed earlier.  Nearly 100 rounds of ammunition were fired into the school w/ two children & a woman injured.  Recorded video shows Neal going into a field behind the school and firing into the air, apparently in frustration at being locked out of the classrooms.  Afterwards, Neal apparently discarded the rifle outside the school.

After fleeing the school, Neal crashed the pickup truck into another vehicle and fired at the two occupants as they tried to flee; the female driver was killed, and her husband was wounded in the legs.  The man survived after pleading with Neal for his life.  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.

As Neal was chasing an innocent victim and shooting at them from his car, he was being pursued by law enforcement.  The stolen truck was ultimately rammed by two law enforcement officers, one from the nearby Corning Police Department, who responded from the city of Corning to assist the sheriff's office, and a Tehama County Sheriff's deputy.  As the truck came to a stop Neal fired at the officers, who exchanged heavy gunfire with him.  Neal then killed himself with a shot above his left eye.  The 25-minute attack took place at eight crime scenes using one semi-automatic ghost rifle and two semi-automatic pistols.  The rampage resulted in the death of five victims w/ 18 others injured.  His motive remains unclear to this day.  His former residence has been torn down & is currently an empty lot.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Tehama_shootings