Sanders yelled at Neal, calling him names and demanding the gunman shoot him instead of the children. Sanders moved out. Outside Rancho Tehama Elementary School after the shooting on Nov. 14, 2017. Miss Nelson yelled at Ferreira to get away from the window. Tina said that in her gut she knew the location of the gunfire. [9][17] A six-year-old student was also injured by a gunshot to the chest. During a pair of weekend vigils, citizens and supporters alike gathered to mourn and begin the process of healing. Tehama County Sheriff / AP file Link copied Soon after, Neal arrived at Rancho Tehama Elementary School, where he barreled the stolen truck through the front gates and into the quad. I think its the desensitization to these events that leads to people wanting to move on, he said. By the time 44-year-old Kevin Neal was finally stopped - fatally shot by officers - Neal had killed five people and injured 18. Police in Northern California say the gunman in a deadly shooting rampage was feuding with his neighbors. We wanted to see how people in this small community were coping now that all that coverage has faded. The man ran off and Neal stole his car. There are a few other roads, but I was told they require four-wheel vehicles. Outside Rancho Tehama Elementary School after the shooting on Nov. 14, 2017. Other than that, we get no help from anybody. After Sanders sister showed up at his home and told him she heard shooting near the school, he raced there, first in her car and then on foot. He showed me a bullet hole in the roof of Saras car. Neal's mother told The Associated Press her son, who was a marijuana . Three of the children were treated and released at the scene, two were treated and released from a hospital and one remains hospitalized. Rich Pedroncelli/AP Three months later, Mike says, people are still on edge. Another, to help with hospital bills for a 34-year-old Rancho Tehama father who was shot in the leg, brought in less than $5,000. Cell phone photo of officers arresting Jessie Sanders, and having him strip down. Neal was known to authorities and had at least one prior arrest. that Kevin Janson Neal, a 44-year-old resident of the small community in Northern California, was the . Asked about Sanders actions that morning, Rancho Tehama residents speak of his selflessness, bravery and kindness. Patrick "Hacker" Jones He knows a thing or two about hackin', lemme tell ya. Both Ferreira and Sanders also saw Troy McFadyen, shot in the leg, sitting on the road beside his deceased wife. It worked. David said Neal then hid behind some trees and shot Elliott and Steele when the pair came outside. Rancho Tehama Reserve. 14 min read. Troy McFadyen was injured, and his wife Michelle McFadyen was killed. 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Neal saw the custodian and started firing at him, but Neals gun jammed. 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. The shooting in Rancho Tehama simply couldnt compete. He also had been shot by deputies just a hundred yards up the road from Mike K.'s house. Sanders and Ferreira both said that when Neal rammed the gate, John, the schools custodian/bus driver, peeked around the corner toward the shots. Neal obliged, turning his assault-style rifle Sanders direction and firing like 60 times, Sanders said. On his way through the town, he shot a woman . Shortly before the shooting started, Sanders sister Tina had just dropped her son off at Rancho Tehama Elementary School. Yikes!! 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. Neal then held the women hostage "for a period of time," Cohen said Wednesday. Neal shot and killed four other people and wounded 10 at different locations around the rural community of Rancho Tehama Reserve. 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 I spoke with Tina. The injured victims were transported to several area clinics and hospitals. "He's a bad guy and I'm not going to glorify him in any manner whatsoever. [9][8], Eleven other peoplesix adults and five childrenwere also shot, but survived. The Tehama County Sheriff's Office identified the five people killed by Rancho Tehama shooter Kevin Neal. Single. The restraining order expired in September, but was renewed before the shootings. Rancho Tehama is a remote, sparsely populated, rural unincorporated community in Tehama County, California, that had a population of 1,485 in 2010. The 35-year-old tree trimmer is now unemployed and, for now, unable to work because of his wounds. Sanders said Neal had a smile on his face when he saw Sanders, and that Neal looked determined to kill him, almost as if he were happy Sanders showed up at the school, saving Neal the trouble of having to find Sanders and murder him later. [22], Governor Jerry Brown, and his wife Anne, offered condolences to all the victims and their families, saying, "Anne and I are saddened to hear about today's violence in Tehama County, which shockingly involved schoolchildren. But theres no end in sight for the psychological misery and financial troubles left behind. Lobdell shuns talk of her heroism that day in favor of words like "training" and "instinct. Sanders got into his sisters car and the pair rushed toward the school. As Sanders tried to reach Neal, Neal ran to the stolen truck, firing the whole time at Sanders. 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 boy suffered non-life-threatening wounds, but the mother was seriously injured, Johnston said. She was carrying a gun and had a license to carry, but she was unable to shoot at Neal because he drove away quickly. He created a photo book of his dogs especially for the children at St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, where he donated several copies. Johnston was one of the first on scene that day. Kevin Neal killed four people, injured ten others. hide caption. Yet Kevin Neal was free and able to use a semi-automatic rifle . Sanders was then handcuffed and put into a squad car. [30], Five people were killed on the day of the shooting spree, including the perpetrator, who died by suicide after a confrontation with a police officer and a deputy sheriff. 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. Sanders said that encounter started a feud, and that over time, bad blood boiled. And we still have that sense of 'we can't believe this really happened. The result is multiple stories, many of them second- and even third-hand; some of them conflicting. Tehama County sheriff's deputies responded 21 times in the past year to calls involving a Northern California man who had been quarreling with neighbors before he shot and killed five people last . Because Eliott had listed Sanders on school forms as the person to call in case of an emergency, after Sanders was released by officers he was notified to pick up Elliotts son from the community recreation center where the kids were bused from the school after the shooting. The board did pay out more than $14,000 in total to families of the dead to help pay for funeral expenses. 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. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. Jessie Sanders was grazed by one of Kevin Neals bullets. Kevin Janson Neal. David said that after Neal murdered the mother and son, Neal killed their neighbor, Joseph Edward McHugh III, then stole his truck before driving down the road, shooting at cars and homes as he made his way to Rancho Tehama Elementary School. A bullet hole is seen in an exterior wall at the Rancho Tehama Elementary School on Nov. 15, 2017. By law, Van Horne says, CalVCB cannot disclose any more information about specific victims or applicants. During this time, Bruehl was oblivious to what was happening outside. Sanders said he and Neal made eye contact, and realized they knew each other. The gunman tried to enter the school, but couldn't get in. "But it's real. Police later shot and killed him. [32] He was held on US$160,000 bail, which was posted by his mother with a bail bond. I have the California victim compensation through Sacramento, he said, so Im kind of waiting on that. Nine months before the shooting rampage, a judge had issued Neal a restraining order at a neighbor's request and ordered him to surrender his guns. Wythe thought it was about 10 minutes. On November 14, 2017, Kevin Janson Neal murdered his wife, before going on a shooting rampage in Rancho Tehama, California. At that point Bruehl said he went out front and heard a lot of gunshots a crazy amount of shots fired as he saw Neal trying to free a truck from the gate. Connor Sheets is an investigative and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. According to the Sacramento Bee, the Ranch Tehama shooter who murdered four and wounded another ten people in a northern California shooting spree was Kevin Janson Neal.And he was no stranger to the local law enforcement community. Cardenas was eventually airlifted to a hospital. The cards are for her swift action last November. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) James Woods Jr. was driving near Rancho Tehama Elementary with his father, James Woods Sr., in . What Im reporting here today is what I saw and heard during my visit. [29][8] A neighbor later said he believed Neal might have been testing the response time of law enforcement. So I didnt get a picture of the bullet hole in the roof of Saras car. 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. [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. This spring, Gage started playing Little League, which he enjoys. Law enforcement arrived and a shootout ensued. 5. . "The quick action of those school officials. Ive always understood that people have mental issues. Before they split up, Feitelberg and her husband successfully applied to be Gages legal guardians, which enabled them to receive Social Security payments on his behalf. How are we still in the exact same place? He said the look of fear in his sisters eyes was frightening. And if they did he should have been supervised with an ankle [bracelet] or something! On Nov. 14, 2017, a shooter killed five people and wounded several others in the rural Northern California town of Rancho Tehama. 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 damaged school gate has been replaced. In part because of the limited media attention, people who were shot or lost loved ones that day say there has not been enough support available to help rebuild their lives. It's not clear why the wounded have received so little thus far. That disparity echoes researchers findings that the higher the body count, the more the media attention, and the greater the outpouring of assistance, said James Densley, a sociologist and criminal justice professor at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota. He praised his staff. . hide caption. Image Credit: CBS Sacramento/YouTube. She previously covered the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, focusing on accountability stories and writing about failures by officials to comply with transparency laws. He never returned to the classroom where the gunman unsuccessfully tried to open the door, which had been locked just seconds earlier. Another young man, Dale Dykes, showed where Neal was shot and killed by officers, just a short distance down the road from where Sanders lives. Among those killed was Neals wife. Neal then fired eight rounds into a Ford F-250 occupied by a woman and her son, who was headed to school. Sarah Gonzales had just dropped off her daughter, when the gunman blocked her car.