Rancho Tehama shootings

On the night of November 13, 2017, 44-year-old Kevin Janson Neal shot and killed his wife, 38-year-old Barbara Glisan, at their home on Bobcat Lane in the unincorporated community of Rancho Tehama, Tehama County, California, hiding her body under the floorboards. The next morning, Neal began a shooting rampage that lasted approximately 25 minutes and spanned eight separate crime scenes.

Neal first killed two neighbors, 38-year-old Danny Elliott and 68-year-old Diana Steele, with whom he had a history of conflict and whom he wrongly suspected of manufacturing methamphetamine. He then stole a pickup truck belonging to one of the victims and began firing at random vehicles and pedestrians, injuring a woman and her three sons in one attack. Neal drove the stolen truck through the gates of Rancho Tehama Elementary School, where staff had already initiated a lockdown after hearing gunfire. He fired nearly 100 rounds into the school, wounding two students, including six-year-old Alejandro Hernandez, who was shot in the chest and leg and airlifted for surgery. Neal later abandoned the rifle at the school and fled.

After leaving the school, Neal crashed the truck into another vehicle, killing the female driver and wounding her husband. He shot and wounded a passerby who had stopped to check on him, stole that person's car, and killed another person, 56-year-old Joseph McHugh III; his wife, 55-year-old Michelle McFadyen, was also killed and is described as having been randomly targeted along with McHugh. Neal also fired multiple rounds into a vehicle occupied by a man surnamed Cardenas, wounding him in the leg.

Law enforcement pursued Neal, and his stolen vehicle was rammed to a stop by a Corning Police Department officer and a Tehama County Sheriff's deputy. Neal exchanged gunfire with the officers, striking their vehicle five times without wounding them, before fatally shooting himself. In total, five people were killed and Neal died by suicide; eighteen others were injured — ten by gunfire and eight by flying glass.

At the time of the shootings, Neal was free on bail facing two felony and five misdemeanor charges stemming from a January 2017 incident in which he stabbed a neighbor and assaulted her mother-in-law. A restraining order obtained by neighbors required him to surrender his firearms; he turned over one pistol but is reported to have illegally manufactured the rifle and possessed unregistered handguns used in the attack. Sheriff's deputies had been called to Neal's home 21 times in 2016 and 2017. His motive remains unclear. The shootings prompted renewed public debate over the regulation of privately made ("homemade") firearms in the United States.