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Cops knew man who killed 4 on Calif. reservation

By Tracie Cone
Published December 10, 2012 5:00am ET
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Cops knew man who killed 4 on Calif. reservation
Rhoda Hunter, tribal council secretary of the Tule River Indian Reservation, walks into Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church for Mass, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, at the Tule River Indian Reservation in California. The church bell, its tower being renovated, has tolled throughout the day on Sunday to honor those killed in what many believe is the worst mass murder in tribal history. Hector Celaya, 31, is a suspect in shootings in which three people died and four others, including two young girls, were wounded Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, on the reservation in the Sierra foothills of California's Central Valley. Since 1933 the church bell has slowly tolled to alert tribal members when someone dies. "That's our way of notifying our people that someone has passed away," Hunter said. (AP Photo/Tracie Cone) | Tracie Cone

PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities on Monday were trying to determine what prompted a man to kill four family members and wound two others on a rural Indian reservation in California.

Hector Celaya, 31, had had contact with police, but there was no indication that he would go on a shooting rampage on the Tule River Indian Reservation, tribal police chief Mike Blain said.

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