R is for Rancho Tehama Reserve

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This account is taken from the Wikipedia page for this event.

On November 13/14, 2017, a series of shootings occurred in Rancho Tehama Reserve, an unincorporated community in Tehama County in California located 120 miles (190 kilometers) northwest of Sacramento.

 Nine months before the shooting rampage, a judge had issued the shooter a restraining order at a neighbor's request and ordered him to surrender his guns. The restraining order expired in September, but was renewed before the shootings.The shooter manufactured the rifle and possessed the handguns in violation of that restraining order. At least one unregistered semi-automatic ghost rifle and two borrowed semi-automatic pistols were used. (A ghost gun is a firearm without serial numbers. The term is used by gun control advocates, gun rights advocates, law enforcement, and some in the firearm industry. By making the gun themselves, owners may legally bypass background checks and registration regulations.)

The killings started on November 13, when the perpetrator shot his wife, Barbara Glisan (aka Gilsan.) The next day, November 14, he went on a shooting rampage, first killing a man and a woman, both neighbors with whom he had an ongoing feud.

After killing his neighbors, the shooter stole a pickup truck that belonged to one of his victims. He then began firing at random vehicles and pedestrians. At an intersection, he bumped the truck into a vehicle carrying a woman and her three sons, drove up to the driver's side, and fired into it, injuring all of them with gunshots or flying glass.

At the Rancho Tehama Elementary School, the school's secretary heard the gunfire near the school and quickly ordered the school to go on lockdown. A school custodian and the teachers put it into action.  The shooter then crashed the pickup truck through the front gates of the school, exited the vehicle with a self-assembled AR-15-type semi-automatic rifle, ran into the center of the school's quad, and fired repeatedly at windows and walls.  Nearly 100 rounds of ammunition were fired into the school.

After fleeing the school, the shooter crashed the pickup truck into another vehicle and fired upon the two occupants as they tried to flee; the female driver was killed and her husband was wounded in the legs. The man survived after pleading for his life. A passerby, unaware of the shootings, stopped his car and asked the shooter if he was okay; the shooter shot and wounded him, stole his car, and continued the rampage, killing another person.

After a brief chase, the shooter's stolen truck was rammed by two pursuing Tehama County sheriff deputies who exchanged gunfire with him, and the shooter died by suicide after shooting himself in the head.

Killed:
Barbara Ann Glisan (aka Gilsan), 38
Danny Lee Elliott, 38
Diana Lee Steele, 68
Joseph Edward McHugh III, 56
Michelle Iris McFadyen, 55

Wounded, by bullets or flying glass:
Tiffany Nai Phommathep (shot in vehicle)
John Phommathep Jr., 10 (Tiffany's son, shot in vehicle)
Jake Phommathep, 6 (Tiffany's son, shot in vehicle)
Nikos Phommathep, 2 (Tiffany's son)
James Woods Sr. (shot on sidewalk)
James Woods Jr., 20 (shot on sidewalk)
Jessie Allen Sanders, 39 (shot near elementary school)
Francisco Gudino Cardenas (shot in vehicle)
Alejandro Hernandez, 6 (shot at elementary school)
Troy Lee McFadyen, 59 (Michelle McFadyen's husband, shot near vehicle)
Two unidentified people
Six unidentified children

Remember the victims.

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