California shooting-spree- 6 Dead including suspect at a shooting in East Bakersfield… VIDEO – PHOTOS…

A shooting in East Bakersfield California has left five people and a shooter dead.

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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Kern County Sheriff’s Office in California said that there are five different shooting scenes, adding that, 6 people, including a suspected gunman, are dead Wednesday evening.

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• Kern County Sheriff said that a man killed his wife and a man at a trucking company, and then killed another man nearby.
  

• The suspected gunman then carjacked a vehicle with a woman and a child, both of whom managed to escape. Police said he later killed two people at a local residence before killing himself after an armed sheriff’s deputy confronted him.

At a press conference Wednesday night, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said he is “certain the shootings are connected, but the investigation is ongoing… Six people lost their lives in a very short period of time….This is highly unusual.”

Kern County Sheriff’s Office responded to shots fired at a trucking business on Manwell Blvd around 5:20 p.m. Wednesday. According to Sheriff, a husband and wife showed up to the business. That’s where the husband shot and killed his own wife and a man…  Several rounds were fired when a third subject walked into the business…The killer allegedly chased the third person down to Bear Mountain Sports, on Di Miller Drive, where he shot and killed him.

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Then according to County Sheriff Youngblood the killer drove to a home on Breckenridge Road where he killed a fourth and fifth person… According to a deputy who witnessed the incident, the suspect then he drove to Fillmore Street (near Pioneer Drive) where he hijacked a car (with a woman and child) and drove to Edison Highway where he shot himself in the chest,

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.