Teen kills neighbor, self at Redding day-care site
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REDDING - Carrying a shotgun, 16-year-old high school student Paul McCallister walked down the stairs to the apartment directly below his, knocked on the door and told the 8-year-old boy who answered that he wanted to see the child's mother.
When 31-year-old Teresa Northrip came to the doorway, the teen shot her twice as her son looked on, and then shot himself.
The murder-suicide late Tuesday afternoon stunned neighbors and baffled investigators, a Redding Police Department spokesman said Wednesday.
"It happened right in the doorway," Sgt. Damon Minor said in describing the bloody scene officers found at at 4:45 p.m. the apartment in southeast Redding. Both the woman and the teen were dead of wounds from a 12-gauge shotgun.
The officers' immediate concern was the fate of the children still inside the apartment where Northrip provided day-care services. They found a 7-month-old baby, Northrip's 2-year-old daughter and her son physically unharmed. The woman's boyfriend, who shared the apartment, had barricaded himself and the children in a bedroom as the shooting began, Minor said.
Shasta County Child Protective Services arrived and later released the children to the custody of family members.
Numerous people, including a neighbor who claimed to have witnessed the shooting, called 911, the officer said.
Northrip and the teen had "some kind of dispute months ago, but we don't believe that it had anything to do with this," Minor said. "We don't know of any recent problems."
He declined to say whether Redding authorities had any prior contact with the juvenile.
McCallister was a freshman last year at Enterprise High School, which was not far from the apartment he shared with his family on East Way, a short street with a mix of single-family houses and apartments.
This semester he was enrolled as a sophomore at Anderson New Technology High School, according to Anderson Union High School District Superintendent Dennis Boyle.
Students from Shasta or Tehama counties who are uncomfortable in traditional schools often find a place at the charter school, according to its Web site. The school has a current enrollment of 195 students, Boyle said.
He confirmed that McCallister had been attending classes, which began Aug. 16, but he provided no other details. Boyle said that counselors had been on campus Wednesday to help students cope with the seventh death of a district student in the past year.
Five of those deaths were related to traffic collisions and one to a hunting accident.
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What a pity. A neighbor kid with a shogun guns down a mother while one of her children look on. I don't think I would have been able to restrain myself if I was the boyfriend.
Keep your eyes open folks...anyone, anytime, anywhere...ya just never know.
Ed
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REDDING - Carrying a shotgun, 16-year-old high school student Paul McCallister walked down the stairs to the apartment directly below his, knocked on the door and told the 8-year-old boy who answered that he wanted to see the child's mother.
When 31-year-old Teresa Northrip came to the doorway, the teen shot her twice as her son looked on, and then shot himself.
The murder-suicide late Tuesday afternoon stunned neighbors and baffled investigators, a Redding Police Department spokesman said Wednesday.
"It happened right in the doorway," Sgt. Damon Minor said in describing the bloody scene officers found at at 4:45 p.m. the apartment in southeast Redding. Both the woman and the teen were dead of wounds from a 12-gauge shotgun.
The officers' immediate concern was the fate of the children still inside the apartment where Northrip provided day-care services. They found a 7-month-old baby, Northrip's 2-year-old daughter and her son physically unharmed. The woman's boyfriend, who shared the apartment, had barricaded himself and the children in a bedroom as the shooting began, Minor said.
Shasta County Child Protective Services arrived and later released the children to the custody of family members.
Numerous people, including a neighbor who claimed to have witnessed the shooting, called 911, the officer said.
Northrip and the teen had "some kind of dispute months ago, but we don't believe that it had anything to do with this," Minor said. "We don't know of any recent problems."
He declined to say whether Redding authorities had any prior contact with the juvenile.
McCallister was a freshman last year at Enterprise High School, which was not far from the apartment he shared with his family on East Way, a short street with a mix of single-family houses and apartments.
This semester he was enrolled as a sophomore at Anderson New Technology High School, according to Anderson Union High School District Superintendent Dennis Boyle.
Students from Shasta or Tehama counties who are uncomfortable in traditional schools often find a place at the charter school, according to its Web site. The school has a current enrollment of 195 students, Boyle said.
He confirmed that McCallister had been attending classes, which began Aug. 16, but he provided no other details. Boyle said that counselors had been on campus Wednesday to help students cope with the seventh death of a district student in the past year.
Five of those deaths were related to traffic collisions and one to a hunting accident.
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What a pity. A neighbor kid with a shogun guns down a mother while one of her children look on. I don't think I would have been able to restrain myself if I was the boyfriend.
Keep your eyes open folks...anyone, anytime, anywhere...ya just never know.
Ed
