The
attacker was also killed by police after shots were fired at a school in Tehama
County, California.
Four
people have been killed and several schoolchildren wounded in a shooting spree
in northern California. The
gunman was also shot dead by police after he opened fire at a primary school in
Rancho Tehama Reserve on Tuesday morning. At
least seven people including three children were being treated in hospital
after the attacker began "randomly picking targets", police said.
Tehama
County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said one child had been shot at the
school and another was shot in a truck with a woman who was also wounded. He
told reporters: "Multiple shots were fired in Rancho Tehama. That evolved
into multiple victims and multiple shots at the elementary school."
Investigators
recovered a semi-automatic rifle and two handguns following the shootings which
were first reported at around 8am local time (4pm GMT). Sky
News' US correspondent Greg Milam said the school did not appear to be the
primary target and the shootings began with a domestic violence incident at a
house.
Police
believe the attacker opened fire at seven locations, he said. Brian
Flint told local newspaper, the Record Searchlight, that his neighbour carried
out the attack and his roommate was among the victims. "The
crazy thing is that the neighbour has been shooting a lot of bullets lately,
hundreds of rounds, large magazines," Mr Flint said. "We
made it aware that this guy is crazy and he's been threatening us."
Jeanine
Quist, an admin assistant with the Corning Union Elementary School District,
said no one was killed at the school.
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