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TEHAMA COUNTY, Calif. (AP) —

Tehama County sheriff’s deputies responded 21 times in the past year to calls involving a Northern California man who had been quarreling with neighbors before he shot and killed five people last week in the rural town of Rancho Tehama, according to sheriff’s records released Tuesday.

The records, released to The Associated Press in response to a public records request, detail a quickly escalating feud between the gunman, Kevin Neal, and his neighbors along a dirt road in a tiny neighborhood of rural Rancho Tehama Reserve.

The yearlong dispute spiraled out of control when Neal killed his wife and two neighbors before shooting at an elementary school in what authorities said may have been an attempt to kill a neighbor’s 7-year-old son.

Neal killed two other people and wounded eight more during the 45-minute rampage before he was killed in a shootout with officers.

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Neal was out on bail in January after being arrested the same month on suspicion of stabbing neighbor Hailey Poland and accosting her and Diana Lee Steele, who was one of the first people killed in the rampage.