This story has gone from bad to worse.
The madman who killed five people near a California elementary school‘s wife has been found…. dead, beneath the floorboards of the home they shared.
Tehema County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnson says investigators found the body of Kevin Janson Neal’s wife hidden under the floor when they raided his home on Wednesday.
Investigators haven’t determined a motive, but believe the killing of his wife started his rampage and that ‘he had a desire to kill as many people as he could.’
The 43-year-old, who sometimes used the name Smith, was identified as the shooter after his Tuesday rampage, which climaxed with him smashing into a school’s gates and firing into its walls and windows.
Neighbors told investigators on Tuesday they believed there was a domestic violence incident at Neal’s home the day before he went on the rampage. Police believe Neal’s wife was killed on Monday.
Investigators don’t yet have any idea how he spent the hours between when he allegedly killed his wife and when he began his shooting spree, but Johnson said it was apparent he tried to cover up his wife’s body.
‘There was a hole cut in the floor,’ he said at a press conference Wednesday.
‘We’re confident that he murdered her, shot her, at some point on Monday, and just put her body in the hole in the floor and just covered it up.’
This is absolutely horrific.
Neal began the Tuesday morning rampage near his home on Bobcat Lane in the Rancho Tehama Reserve at 7.52am, shooting people at random before stealing a truck and performing drive-bys on homes, pedestrians and other drivers.
He eventually arrived at the Rancho Tehama Elementary School and smashed through its gates before firing as many as 100 bullets through windows and walls, hitting one child, and trying to enter classrooms. He then fled, and was shot dead by police near the property.
‘I thought there was a car accident,’ Stephanie Turner, who was dropping off her children, aged six and seven, at the time, told the Sacramento Bee of Neal’s assault on the school gates.
‘I pulled into the school and heard gunshots. I told my kids to get down onto the floor. Then I saw a guy in the back of the school with a rifle. As soon as he saw us, he started shooting at us. I just took 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.
He also attempted to enter classrooms in order to continue his rampage, but the school had been locked down, preventing access, Fox News reported.
The man was a complete psycho… out on BAIL after STABBING HIS NEIGHBOR.
WTH is going on in this country?