California shootings: Gunman identified in deadly rampage; wife among dead - CNN

California shootings: Gunman identified in deadly rampage; wife among dead - CNN

(CNN)Kevin Neal's deadly shooting rampage in Northern California may have been prompted by the fatal shooting of his wife, Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said Wednesday.

Neal, identified as the gunman who killed four people in a string of shootings Tuesday, shot and killed his wife the previous night and concealed her body under a floor in his home, the assistant sheriff said. The discovery of his wife's body brought the death toll to five.

"We believe that's probably what started this whole event," Johnston said of the wife's shooting.

Neal had been out of bail on an assault with a deadly weapon charge from January.

Before police shot him dead, Neal also injured at least 10 others in a string of shootings that spanned at least seven sites in the small community of Rancho Tehama, west of Corning, police said. Those locations include a locked elementary school that the shooter fired into from the outside, injuring a boy.