Hey, I just read this. Has anyone else heard of it. This is horrible. I can not understand what people are thinking these days. It really makes you think twice before letting your kids go anywhere.
Off-Duty Deputy in Small Wisconsin Town Kills 6, Injures Another Before He Is Taken Down
CRANDON, Wis. (Associated Press) -- An off-duty sheriff's deputy went on a shooting rampage early Sunday at a home where seven young people had gathered for pizza and movies, killing six and critically injuring the other before authorities fatally shot him, officials said.
The gunman, Tyler Peterson, was 20 years old and worked full-time as a Forest County deputy sheriff and part-time as a Crandon police officer, said Police Chief John Dennee.
Three of the victims were students at the small town's high school, and three were recent graduates, a school official said. The gunman may have graduated from the same high school.
Peterson was not working at the time of the shooting, Sheriff Keith Van Cleve said.
The survivor was in critical condition Sunday night at a hospital in nearby Marshfield, according to a nursing supervisor. A Crandon police officer who fired back was treated for minor injuries and released.
Gary Bradley, mayor of the city of about 2,000, said earlier Sunday that a sniper killed the suspect, but Van Cleve would not confirm that officers shot the suspect.
Peterson was killed Sunday afternoon eight miles north of Crandon in the rural town of Argonne, Dennee said.
The circumstances of the shooting were hazy Sunday and it wasn't immediately clear what the gunman's motive was, but the mother of a 14-year-old victim said the suspect may have been a jealous boyfriend. The shooting occurred in a white, two-story duplex about a block from downtown Crandon.
"It was a pizza and movie party," Dennee said.
Three of the victims were Crandon High School students, said schools Superintendent Richard Peters, and the other three had graduated within the past three years.
"There is probably nobody in Crandon who is not affected by this," Peters said, adding that students would be especially affected. "They are going to wake up in shock and disbelief and a lot of pain."
Peters did not know whether Peterson had also graduated from the 300-student high school. But Crandon resident Karly Johnson, 16, said that she knew the gunman and that he had helped her in a tech education class.
"He graduated with my brother," she said. "He was nice. He was an average guy. Normal. You wouldn't think he could do that."
One of the dead was 14-year-old Lindsey Stahl, said her mother, Jenny Stahl, 39.
She said her daughter called her Saturday night and asked whether she could sleep over at a friend's house. Jenny Stahl agreed.
"I'm waiting for somebody to wake me up right now. This is a bad, bad dream," the weeping mother said. "All I heard it was a jealous boyfriend and he went berserk. He took them all out."
Dennee declined comment on whether Peterson had a romantic relationship with any of the victims.
A second victim was Bradley Schultz, 20, a third-year student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who was home to visit his friends, said his aunt, Sharon Pisarek.
"We still don't have many details, but from what they've told us, there was a girl next to him and he was covering her, protecting her," she said, sobbing. "He was loved by everybody. He was everybody's son. Senseless."
Marci Franz, 35, who lives two houses south of the duplex, said gunshots awoke her.
"I heard probably five or six shots, a short pause and then five or six more," she said. "I wasn't sure if it was gunfire initially. I thought some kids were messing around and hitting a nearby metal building."
Then she heard eight louder shots and tires squealing, she said.
"I was just about to get up and call it in, and I heard sirens," she said. "There's never been a tragedy like this here. There's been individual incidents, but nothing of this magnitude."
Her husband, David Franz, 36, said it was hard to accept that someone in law enforcement committed such an act.
"The first statement we said to each other was, how did he get through the system?" David Franz said. "How do they know somebody's background, especially that young? It is disturbing, to say the least."
The sheriff said he would meet with state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Monday morning to discuss the case. Dennee said the state Department of Criminal Investigation will handle the case because the suspect was a deputy and officer.
The Crandon School District called off classes Monday.
The community, about 225 miles north of Milwaukee in an area known for logging and outdoor activities, is facing a trying time but is pulling together, Bradley said.
"We are a strong community. We always have been," he said. "This is agonizing, but we will prevail."
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Associated Press writer Dinesh Ramde in Milwaukee contributed to this report.
We leave Tuesday morning.
From their we went to walmart and left empty handed. They did not have notebook paper and Kelsey needed more for her homework. So then it was off to the bookstore to get my book and a mag for each kid for the trip. We left there to go to Target. Got Kelseys notebook paper, Mackenzie a shirt, Kelsey some slipper socks, and a stocking stuffer for Mackenzie for x-mas. From there it was off to the grocery store to get stuff for tonights BBQ. We decided to make schikaboes (sp). We have never made them. So I got 2 different kinds of chicken, shrimp and some beef. Along with vegetable. I really thought I would only get 15 out of all that. Boy was I wrong. We got home and visited with a neighbor for a little while. Then it was back to helping Kelsey with homework. Time for BBQ. Real interesting. We were all suposed to bring our own meet, and a side dish to share. So Kelsey and I start putting hte schikabobes together. We ended up with 30. (Great it means left overs for my lunches this wee) We also bought Mac salad and cookies to share. So at the BBQ I somehow got put in charge of watching the little kids. So only got to eat one shikabob and some mac salad and one 1/2 cookie. I went back near the end when the kids were done run around to find out that there were only 5 schikabobes left. Needless to say everyone we eating those instead of their food. One family only cooked hotdogs, so they gave those to all the kids except Mackenzie. (She does not care for hotdogs, she went for the shrimp and beef) Another famiy only brought cookies, another family did vegies and chicken. Another family brought salsa and some sauage. All the ones that brough other meat had left overs to take home. Gee I wonder why. They all at ours. 
Still, so cute!
I was lucky to get that one!
Looking forward to the humidity again!
See you onboard!
I am just a little worried about how she's gonna act down there. Only a few weeks ago she started with tantrums and now she wiggles and flips EVERYTIME I change her diaper or her clothes, she's starting to understand what NO means and she doesn't like it
She looks like shes really concentrating - were you demonstrating how to use the Navigator or something
