Gunman kills five and then himself

A GUNMAN in southern California fatally shot his ex-wife and a man at a trucking company before chasing after another man, killing him, and then driving to a home where he shot dead a father and daughter in a rampage that lasted nearly 40 minutes.

Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood identified the killer as 54-year-old Javier Casarez at a news conference about the shootings in Bakersfield, about 90 miles north of Los Angeles.

Casarez fatally shot himself as a deputy closed in on him.