Kelseyville man arrested after woman killed in road-rage shooting spree

The first clue was a body in Kelseyville. By the time investigators tied it to a series of roadside shootings across Lake County and Napa County, the case had grown from a suspected road-rage attack into a murder probe spanning multiple crime scenes and a widening manhunt.

Coleman Rocheleau, 38, was arrested Friday after authorities said he fired at a woman in Napa County during a road-rage incident and investigators later found another woman dead in Lake County. Deputies first responded around 8:30 a.m. to shots fired in the Kelseyville Riviera area near Highway 29 and Point Lakeview Road, where the initial report appeared to involve a vehicle confrontation.

Investigators later said the woman’s body was discovered in the 10000 block of Terrace Way in Kelseyville. That discovery pushed the case beyond a single shooting scene and forced detectives to connect what happened in Lake County with reports of gunfire elsewhere in the region. Rocheleau was also linked in local reporting to a shooting near Calistoga and another incident in Napa County, adding another layer to a case that moved quickly from one roadway to another.

Authorities booked Rocheleau on charges related to murder, and some reports also cited torture and assault with a deadly weapon. The charge mix suggests prosecutors will have to sort each act in order, from the killing in Kelseyville to the later shootings that followed as the suspect moved through the North Bay. For investigators, the challenge was not just identifying a suspect, but stitching together how one violent encounter cascaded into multiple public-safety emergencies across county lines.

The arrest also put a sharp focus on Lake County’s response capacity. The sheriff’s office operates the Hill Road Correctional Facility, which is rated to hold 297 inmates, and the department is allocated 68 full-time employees, including 52 sworn positions. In a region that entered its annual burn ban on May 1 and remains under seasonal alert through November 1, the case landed in the middle of an already high-readiness period for local law enforcement.

What began with a woman found dead in Kelseyville ended as a regional manhunt, with investigators now left to piece together how the shooting at Terrace Way, the roadside gunfire near Highway 29, and the Napa County attack all fit into the same violent chain.