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<\/a>Rancho Tehama Elementary School near Corning, California. Screengrab via Google Streetview<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
Michelle Mark
\nBusiness Insider<\/p>\n
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- At least five\u00a0people, including a gunman, are dead\u00a0after a shooting at a Northern California reserve on Tuesday, authorities said.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Police said the\u00a0shooting occurred\u00a0at multiple locations, including the Rancho Tehama Elementary School.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Witnesses reported hearing\u00a0dozens of\u00a0shots fired just before 8 a.m. local time (11 a.m. ET).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- At least three\u00a0children were\u00a0wounded, police said.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nAt least four\u00a0people and a gunman\u00a0are dead\u00a0after a shooting spree on Tuesday across multiple locations at the Rancho Tehama reserve in Northern California, including at a\u00a0local\u00a0elementary school, authorities\u00a0said.<\/p>\n
Police said at least three\u00a0children\u00a0were among the\u00a0wounded, including a 6-year-old with two gunshot wounds who has been airlifted to a hospital. Another child was shot in the leg,\u00a0the Redding Record Searchlight reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Authorities and witnesses told media that\u00a0the gunman appeared to pick targets randomly, driving around the community and\u00a0shooting at people\u00a0from his car<\/a>. Police officers said the shooting appeared to have begun as a “domestic violence incident,” though they did not go into detail.<\/p>\n
The gunman\u00a0was fatally\u00a0shot\u00a0by police,\u00a0said Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston, though he declined to release a name.\u00a0Johnston\u00a0added that a rifle and handguns were recovered from the scenes.<\/p>\n
Johnston said it\u00a0was unclear because of the number of shooting locations how many people were injured, but he said\u00a0that “a number” of students were medically evacuated from the reserve and that authorities had fanned out across seven scenes of interest.<\/p>\n
“We have about 100 law-enforcement personnel in Rancho Tehama right now with multiple, multiple scenes,” he\u00a0said.<\/p>\n
Witnesses reported<\/a>\u00a0shots fired at the Rancho Tehama Elementary School, near Corning, just before 8 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n
Rancho Tehama has\u00a0a\u00a0population<\/a>\u00a0of 1,485, according to the\u00a0latest census. The community is roughly 135 miles northwest of Sacramento and 50 miles south\u00a0of Redding, where some\u00a0of the victims have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n
‘This guy … he’s been threatening us’<\/h2>\n
Coy Ferreira, a father of a kindergarten student at the school, told\u00a0KRCR News Channel 7<\/a>\u00a0that he heard the shots as he was dropping his daughter off at class. He told the outlet that\u00a0a school\u00a0official shouted for children to get inside classrooms.<\/p>\n
Ferreira said he ran into one classroom full of students and saw\u00a0bullets coming through the windows, hitting one young boy in the foot and chest.<\/p>\n
“He’s a really strong kid,” Ferreira told the news outlet. “I didn’t know he was shot for a good\u00a030 minutes, until I got up to walk to the office in the classroom and I saw he had\u00a0bloody clothes. He started crying, and I informed the teacher that he was shot.”<\/p>\n
Salvador Tello, a Rancho Tehama resident, told the Record Searchlight that he was en route to the school with his three children when he saw\u00a0a gunman open fire on the truck in front of him. He told his children to get down, then he put his truck in reverse, he told the newspaper.<\/p>\n
As he was driving away, he said, he saw a woman dead in the street with\u00a0a wounded man next to her.<\/p>\n
Brian Flint, a resident of Corning, told news media that the gunman was his neighbor, whom he identified only as “Kevin.” Flint said his truck had been stolen and that his roommate was injured in the shooting.<\/p>\n
Flint told the Record Searchlight that living near the gunman was “hell,” adding that the man\u00a0was a felon who had often harassed him.<\/p>\n
“The crazy thing is that the neighbor has been shooting a lot of bullets lately, hundreds of rounds, large magazines,” Flint said. “We made it aware that this guy\u00a0is crazy and he’s been threatening us.”<\/p>\n
Another witness, who identified herself only as Tiffany,\u00a0told the Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0that she heard the gunfire from the cafe she owns nearby. She said she heard about 100 rounds fired from what sounded like multiple guns.<\/p>\n
Reporters tweeted photos and videos from the scene:<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Rancho Tehama Road completely blocked off by crime tape. pic.twitter.com\/UfFSlZwQxJ<\/a><\/p>\n
— Sara Stinson (@SaraStinsonNews) November 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
- Police said the\u00a0shooting occurred\u00a0at multiple locations, including the Rancho Tehama Elementary School.<\/strong><\/li>\n