Sept 12 (Reuters) - An unidentified gunman shot and killed five people in a series of shootings on Wednesday in Southern California before taking his own life, police said. The man killed his wife and a man at a trucking company in Bakersfield, California, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood told a news conference. He then chased another man from the trucking company before he shot and killed him in front of a nearby sports store. “This is the new normal, if you look across the country,” Youngblood said, describing the incident as a mass shooting. “Six people lost their lives in a very short period of time.”Authorities were working to determine “why this started and why so many players were involved and the connection because obviously, these are not random shootings,” Youngblood said.

Source: Huffington Post September 13, 2018 04:21 UTC