California Gunman ‘Was Targeting His 7-Year-Old Neighbor’ He Had Threatened In The Past

As if shooting up an elementary school and killing his wife and hiding her under the floorboards isn’t bad enough, this story keeps getting creepier and creepier…

According to this:

The California gunman who killed five people including his wife who he concealed underneath the floorboards of their home may have targeted his neighbor’s seven-year-old child.

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, Gage, said Johnny Phommathep, a neighbor who lived about 200 feet away from Neal.

‘He’d scream to him, “I’ma kill you, boy. I’ma learn you. Once I kill you, I’ma go kill your son at school,”‘ Phommathep told the Record Searchlight of Redding.

OMG…. if someone ever said something HALF as creepy as that to my kid… they’d get what’s coming to them.

The Tehama County Sheriff’s Office said Neal, 44, killed Elliott and his mother, Diana Steele, in an apparent act of revenge before he shot randomly into vehicles and at people in this tiny, rural community about 130 miles (209 kilometers) north of Sacramento.

The gunman also killed Michelle McFayden, 55 and Joseph McHugh III, 56, both of Rancho Tehama Reserve and wounded at least a dozen adults and children before authorities shot him dead during a rampage on Tuesday.

The gunman rammed a car into the gates of Rancho Tehama Elementary School and shot at its portable classrooms. He tried repeatedly to get into a kindergarten classroom but quick-thinking staff had locked the school down, and he eventually stormed off.

According to the local school district, Neal shot through windows and walls, hitting one child in a classroom, who had to be airlifted to hospital and is in stable condition.

That child was identified as Alejandro Hernandez, 6; he was hit in the chest and foot, according to a cousin who started a GoFundMe page for him.

Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston has said he wasn’t sure why Neal headed to the school, but Phommathep said Neal probably went there looking for Elliott’s son. The school has about 100 students, in kindergarten through fifth grades.

Tehama County District Attorney Gregg Cohen also said through a spokeswoman Friday that he believes Neal targeted the school because of the child.

Authorities found the bullet-riddled body of Neal’s wife, 38-year-old Barbara Glisan, under the floorboards of their home. They believe her slaying was the start of the rampage.

It gives me chills knowing madmen like this exist.

What kind of evil lurks among us?

I don’t even want to know.