They also received some short-term assistance from Tehama County and about $55,000 from a GoFundMe drive. 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. 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. Dykes also showed where Michelle Iris McFadyen was killed on the side of the road. And we still have that sense of 'we can't believe this really happened. That gave the school a few more critical seconds to go into complete lockdown mode. It was Elliotts father who broke the news of his sons death to Sanders. November 15, 2017 / 7:10 AM 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. [7] 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. Kevin Janson Neal. 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. Its the kind of place where a man with a history of violence can beat his wife in his front yard, igniting a deadly feud when hes asked to stop, or take it inside. Despite Ferreiras quick actions, hes tortured by the wish that hed been the one shot, not a 6-year-old little kid. 5. . "There's a small bundle of plastic flowers honoring the dead at the "Welcome to Rancho Tehama" sign when you enter the town. "But it's real. They were mothers, sons and wives. He said that as Neal emptied a magazine, in a matter of seconds, he could set the rifle over a magazine on the vest and the gun was reloaded. She stopped four motorists to help her get to the hospital, but they drove off. Sanders said he ran from his moms house over to the scene to see what had happened. Among those killed was Neals wife. A man who saw the crash pulled over to help, and Neal shot at him. Rancho Tehama, also known as the Rancho Tehama Reserve, is an unincorporated community in Tehama County, California, . Windows have been fixed and bullet holes in the walls have been patched. Kevin Janson Neal and his wife lived at the end of the road, at the bottom of a ravine, in a battered baby-blue trailer home with a front yard full of broken-down cars . Kevin Janson Neal mugshot. The Tehama County Sheriffs Office on Thursday released the names of the five people killed by a gunman who rampaged through Rancho Tehama on Tuesday, spraying bullets at several locations, including an elementary school. Sanders said that Neal was wearing a bullet-proof vest that had magazines attached to the front of it. He also had been shot by deputies just a hundred yards up the road from Mike K.'s house. For those who were shot, it paid for medical bills. Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. Patrick "Hacker" Jones He knows a thing or two about hackin', lemme tell ya. He was arrested and jailed in Tehama County, but Neal made a $160,000 bail and was freed, allowing him to return . that Kevin Janson Neal, a 44-year-old resident of the small community in Northern California, was the . This is an especially complicated story made even more complicated by eight crime scenes. Other than that, we get no help from anybody. [11] The woman was shot five times, four near her heart. He stepped out and fired randomly at the rooms around him. I have the California victim compensation through Sacramento, he said, so Im kind of waiting on that. [4] Major stores, social services, and medical careincluding a hospital emergency roomare in Red Bluff and Corning. It's hard for us to talk to her about it. [1] He handed over a single pistol and attested that he had no other guns. He loves that the kids enjoy seeing his dogs photographed in unusual ways. Ten people suffered bullet wounds and eight were cut by flying glass caused by the gunfire. 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. Coy Ferreira, left, and Jessie Sanders remain shaken by the traumatic events that happened in their town one week ago. During a pair of weekend vigils, citizens and supporters alike gathered to mourn and begin the process of healing. Barely a week earlier, a shooter killed 25 people and an unborn child and injured 22 others at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. During the killing spree, he killed neighbors and then motorists in his path before attacking an elementary school, wounding children therein. 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. Today, the Rancho Tehama community still hurts. Yes it did.". killing 58 people and leaving more than 850 others injured, Rancho Tehama gunman targeted wife, neighbor before attacking passersby at random, Terror in Northern California town as gunman goes on rampage, kills 5, The Week in Photos: California exits pandemic emergency amid a winter landscape, Snowboarder dies at South Lake Tahoe resort, California to alter COVID rules in healthcare settings: Masks and vaccinations not required, Welcome to the world, baby Winter, born amid a snowstorm in Lake Arrowhead. Kevin Neal killed four people, injured ten others. He was driven down by the gas station at the entrance of the Ranch where he sat inside the car for an hour. "I just told [police] to tell my wife and son I love them and I just faded away. Rancho Tehama Elementary School was targeted by a gunman on Tuesday. Ferreira said that the teacher tried to get the dispatcher to understand that she was calling from the school, the location of the shooter, but the 911 dispatcher hung up on her. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. He moved out of town, several hours away and into his parent's house with his wife and son. Ferreira ran onto the playground, picked up the little girl and rushed her into the classroom. Neal then crashed his vehicle into a car, which killed and injured two people. . He never returned to the classroom where the gunman unsuccessfully tried to open the door, which had been locked just seconds earlier. Source: Tehama County Sheriff. On the morning of Nov. 14, 2017, he helped prevent a potential bloodbath at the elementary school by drawing fire from the gunman in an act he brushes off as his parental duty. 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. 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. School officials heard gunshots and made a critical decision to lock it down. The six injured adults were 31-year-old Tiffany Nai Phommathep, 43-year-old James Wood, 20-year-old James Wood II, 34-year-old Francisco Gudino Cardenas, 47-year-old Troy Lee McFadyen, and 39-year-old Sanders, whose bravery helped save many lives at the elementary school. He fired repeatedly at the locked-down doors, windows and walls. 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. One of them.". Lobdell immediately called for every child and teacher to go inside, fast, and get into lock down mode they'd practiced. On one level, it looks like all is mostly back to normal in the small, rural community of Rancho Tehama in Northern California. Murdaugh trial verdict coming within 3 hours was "shocking," legal analyst says, Lawsuits claim dental device wrecked teeth. Neal was killed by a self-inflicted gun shot. I've got my antennas up all the time. The shooters wife was nowhere to be found. He was sprayed with glass, metal, and bullet fragments from both sides, he says, as he crouched in the front passenger side of his truck. "Well there was no direct violation of the TRO that we could sink our teeth into for sure," he says. [4][25][26][27][28] Two handguns and another AR-15-type rifle were recovered near his body. The gunman tried to enter the school, but couldn't get in. Medical professionals cut teeth and tissue out of the then-20-year-olds mouth. The gunman, 44-year-old Kevin Janson Neal, died by suicide after a Corning police officer rammed and stopped his stolen vehicle. That was a big mistake.". Kevin Janson Neal: 43, of Corning was arrested Tuesday in the 6900 block of . "I do believe the sheriff's department dropped the ball when they let this guy (gunman Kevin Neal) live out here with a lot of guns," says local realtor Vern Wilson, who has lived in Rancho Tehama for more than two decades. [17] The handguns were not registered to him. Sheriff investigators work at the Rancho Tehama Elementary School campus in Rancho Tehama Reserve in Corning, Calif. On Tuesday, Nov.14, 2017. 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. Two women embrace outside Rancho Tehama Elementary School, where a gunman opened fire Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in Corning, Calif. He told Tina to go home so she wouldnt get hurt. She finally received aid from an assistant deputy sheriff who called for an ambulance. 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The Record Searchlight reported: "A helicopter medical crew reported they were transporting a 6-year-old victim to Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Sanders felt enraged, and shouted to Neal to shoot in his direction, hoping to distract him from the kids. Kevin Janson Neal attended East Carolina University from August 2001 to May 2004 but did not qualify for a degree and never declared a major. Those amounts are fractions of the sums donated after more highly publicized, deadlier mass shootings. Their stories are deeply personal, but theyre part of a uniquely American modern phenomenon: communities broken by mass gun violence, then largely left alone to try to pick up the pieces. "He did shoot at a number of classrooms which resulted in the injury of at least one or two students that I'm aware of," the sheriff said. I mean really. Police in Northern California say the gunman in a deadly shooting rampage was feuding with his neighbors. He is a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature photography for images of Central Americans risking life and limb as they jump aboard the trains from southern Mexico bound for the United States and a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist in breaking news photography for team coverage of hurricanes. Meanwhile, directly across the road from the schools gate through which Neal had just crashed, lived friends and neighbors Johnny Wythe and Uncle Chuck Bruehl. Soon after, Neal arrived at Rancho Tehama Elementary School, where he barreled the stolen truck through the front gates and into the quad. Scheide. I did get some clarification on the tragedy, but not on all the victims. The Tehama County Sheriff's Office identified the five people killed by Rancho Tehama shooter Kevin Neal. Authorities . Neal, 44, had been out on bail after being charged with stabbing a neighbor when he went on a 45-minute shooting spree Tuesday in the rural community of Rancho Tehama Reserve, about 130 miles . His life changed that day forever. hide caption. The smaller ones often received far less. What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? You want to think that you have the ability to protect people from that and you don't have that ability. The restraining order expired in September, but was renewed before the shootings. But that high regard hasnt meant much for Sanders everyday life. Like Gage, Sanders son also was at Rancho Tehama Elementary when Neal arrived after shooting multiple people on his way from Bobcat Lane. RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Calif. . 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. A shootout ensued, and Neal was killed. hide caption. News media reported others who were shot by Neal as he drove to the school, such as Tiffany Nai Phommathep, shot four times in the shoulder while driving in her truck with her children passengers, some of whom were also injured by Neals bullets. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. He was watching television, and didnt hear anything until the gunman was trying to leave. His neighbors complained regularly that Neal was firing off rounds day and night. He was fed through a gastrointestinal tube. 2017 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Dozens more were wounded. He introduced me to another hero from that day, Coy Ferreira, a father who scooped up a terrified child from the playgrounds open space, away from the spray of gunfire and into the safety of his daughters classroom. They said Kevin Neal had a violent history. He showed me a bullet hole in the roof of Saras car. RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Calif. . Neals shooting put Rancho Tehama Reserve known by locals as Rancho Tehama or simply the Ranch on the map, but only briefly. (Tehama County Sheriff via AP) Kevin Janson Neal shot Woods in the face during the 2017 rampage. Inside, the walls of secretary Sarah Lobdell's office are adorned with colorful "thank you" cards and well-wishes from across the state and the nation. And it paid for all the funerals other than the shooters, he said. No one else helps us, she said. 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. We're not sure how.". For Woods Jr., who has extensive facial scarring, the most difficult part has been the question of how his kids will perceive him. On Nov. 14, 2017, a shooter killed five people and wounded several others in the rural Northern California town of Rancho Tehama. 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. Kevin Janson Neal was arrested, charged with stabbing neighbor Hailey Suzanne Poland, attacking her mother-in-law during Jan. 31 encounter in rural neighborhood. There is only one way in, and one way out, and thats via Rancho Tehama Road. 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. For most of them, it provided counseling, because thats what they needed. Sanders seemed like an open guy who talks as if he has a positive outlook on life. In fact, she says, she never stopped. [5] At an intersection, he bumped the truck into a vehicle carrying a woman and her three sons. "Hopefully if they get anything else like this again they'll look at it a little closer," he says. It's crazy.". The injured victims were transported to several area clinics and hospitals. Sanders said he was furious when he saw who it was; that Neal was the shooter trying to kill kids. Since January 31, 2018, ghost guns required a serial number in the state. 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. Two of the shots hit the 6-year-old boy in his chest and leg. His leg was badly shot up. James Woods Jr., 25, with daughter Nevaeh, 5. hide caption. Yes it did. Sanders said that encounter started a feud, and that over time, bad blood boiled. The five killed by Neal were 38-year-old Barbara Ann Gilsan (Neals wife), 38-year-old Danny Lee Elliott, and his mother 68-year-old Diana Steel (Neals neighbors, two doors down), 56-year-old Joseph Edward McHugh III (Neals next-door neighbor), and 55-year-old Michelle Iris McFadyen. Officers recovered one semi- automatic rifle and two handguns. Sanders said that the first thought that went through his mind was that if the cops had done their job in dealing with Neal following several violent episodes in the past, he wouldnt be there with guns trying to kill children. Elsewhere the signs are less visible. Neal saw the custodian and started firing at him, but Neals gun jammed. He said they first stopped at the office because his daughter always liked seeing Sara, the secretary, before going to class. Gunman Kevin Janson Neal is believed to have spent six minutes shooting into the school before driving off to continue his shooting spree. They said everyone knew it, including law enforcement. He said the look of fear in his sisters eyes was frightening. Contact 1-800-799- Safe (7233); Alternative to Violence Red Bluff 530-528-0226; One Safe Place Redding 530-244-0188; Shingletown 530-474-1910; Catalyst in Chico, 530-343-7711, or Oroville 530-532-6427. 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 created a photo book of his dogs especially for the children at St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, where he donated several copies. As with so many mass shootings across the U.S., because the death toll was comparatively low, Rancho Tehamas was little more than another blip on the slaughter radar, forgotten by many within months. To many in town, hes a hero, though he says he dislikes the term. Gun violence is so routine that theres just not the resources there to address the problem at all, he said. A school custodian and the teachers put it into action. The front yard where Tehama County, Calif., gunman Kevin Janson Neal lived with his wife, Barbara. "I feel like they and the sheriff's office were setting me up for failure.". Her son his nephew was a Rancho Tehama Elementary School student. "It hurt. It's something Assistant Sheriff Johnston seems to struggle with. After getting out on bail for the stabbing, the gunman was slapped with a temporary restraining order or TRO. Chris Van Horne with CalVCB confirms the board, so far, has paid out only $100 in all for medical bills for the 12 wounded in Rancho Tehama. At the elementary school, Ferreira was walking his daughter to her classroom before 8 a.m. Some media reported that police believe Neal went home after he left the school, and took off in yet another stolen vehicle. One student was wounded and others were injured by broken glass. In using the term, "domestic terrorist," I am . I think its the desensitization to these events that leads to people wanting to move on, he said. Forty-three percent of the town's residents fall below the federal poverty level. It was so close I was almost like 'just get it over with, just hit me.'". "Everyone's got their antennas up. Several others wounded told of similar frustrations and anger. Woods Sr. doesnt like to complain. He attacked my school," Johnston said. California, November 16 . Neal then fired eight rounds into a Ford F-250 occupied by a woman and her son, who was headed to school. Officers grabbed Sanders and made him take off his shirt, shoes and socks. In reply to R.V. At one point during his shooting spree, Neal rammed through the locked gates at Rancho Tehama Elementary School, before classes began. Crowdfunding efforts, which can be reliable resources for victims in the aftermath of prominent mass shootings with high death tolls, failed to raise enough money to defray the cost of their hospital bills and other needs. The result is multiple stories, many of them second- and even third-hand; some of them conflicting. And then I have to do implants. It was gone, gone. . They tried to get him to remove his pants, but he wasnt wearing shorts and refused to remove his jeans. Methinks this explains wee Patrick's attempt to change the oath for county employees. Connor Sheets is an investigative and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. 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. As she drove away, she heard something a gunshot or a firecracker. Witnesses and surveillance video show he stalked the school's courtyard, seemingly furious he couldn't get inside. They declined to speak on the record citing potential legal action. I think it might have messed me up a little bit more than I thought it did, because I dont go into public anymore and I seem to get real short with my family when I feel like Im getting around too many people, he said. 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." The mother of the gunman who killed four people during a shooting rampage in Northern California said he called her a day earlier and told . A short time later, a patrol car rammed the suspect's vehicle. I was really scared because I did not know what was happening to Angalene, she said. [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.