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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15-- The death toll in mass shooting Tuesday near an elementary school in Rancho Tehama, a small rural community of California, rose to 6, local police confirmed Wednesday. Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said at a news conference Wednesday that the fatal incident apparently began Monday night with suspect Kevin Janson Neal shooting his wife to death with multiple rounds of bullets and hiding her body under the floor of their home. Neal, who was called by Johnston as "a madman on the loose," drove out his home Tuesday morning with two semi-automatic guns and started his bloody journey along streets in the community, about 190 km north of California state capital Sacramento. The massacre left a total of six people dead, including Neal, and eight people injured, seven of them children, Johnston said, adding that Neal just fired randomly at homes and structures before he was killed in an exchange of fires with two policemen. Johnston revealed that the first call for help came into the sheriff's dispatch center at 7:54 a.m. and that by 8:19 a.m., law enforcement officers had engaged Neal and killed him. He said police officers heard the shots near the school and immediately went there and locked it down. The shooter found he could not get into the school, then shot 20 to 30 rounds at the school for about six minutes. "It's monumental that the school went on lockdown," Johnston told reporters, "I really, truly believe that we would have had a horrific bloodbath at that school." | 
