The shooter who killed five people in a rural northern California community Tuesday apparently targeted his neighbor and the neighbor’s 7-year-old son due to a long-simmering feud, another neighbor told a local newspaper Friday.
Johnny Phommathep, who lived about 200 feet away from gunman Kevin Neal, told the Record Searchlight of Redding that Neal threatened out loud that he was going to kill Danny Elliott and then go to the elementary school and kill Elliott’s 7-year-old son, Gage.
“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 paper.
Neal killed Elliott and Elliott’s mother, Diana Steele, and wounded at least a dozen adults and children in his rampage across Rancho Tehama Reserve before authorities shot him dead.
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