Authorities say the wife of a gunman who went on a shooting rampage in a Northern California town was found dead inside their home.
ABC11 has learned that the gunman who went on the apparently random shooting spree was raised in Wake County, and his mother still lives in the area.
A family member of the gunman who shot 15 people, killing 5, during the rampage got teary-eyed and emotional when talking to ABC11 about what's happening within his family.
He said as of Wednesday morning, police had not reached out to them yet, confirming it's their Kevin Neal. However, he did say that the image being published of the alleged gunman is his relative.
He said Neal was very smart but "troubled," and confirmed he was feuding with his neighbors.
He added that "we're very sorry," to the victims and said the family feels horrible for everyone involved in the incident.
His mother talked to The Associated Press by phone from Raleigh and said he called her a day earlier and told her that he was finished feuding with the small rural community where he lived.
"Mom it's all over now," Kevin Neal's mother said he told her in their final conversation. "I have done everything I could do and I am fighting against everyone who lives in this area."
Neal was working as a pot farmer and had recently married his longtime girlfriend before he died in a shootout with police on Tuesday.
In her last few talks with her son, Neal's mother said he sounded desperate and despairing over his relationship with his neighbors, who he said were cooking meth and creating fumes that were harming his nine dogs.
"All of a sudden, now I'm on a cliff and there's nowhere to go," she recalled her son telling her. "No matter where I go for help here I get nobody who will help me. All they are doing is trying to execute me here."
The first two people Neal shot and killed were neighbors before he sought seemingly random victims elsewhere, including an elementary school, where he was locked out.