Must have been a "Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod" voters's meeting.
My family and I were driving right past this hotel at the time the call to police was made - on our way to have lunch with my folks who are celebrating their 45th anniversary. Pretty freaky.
By GRAEME ZIELINSKI
Posted: March 12, 2005
A Waukesha County man opened fire at a church service at a busy Brookfield hotel this afternoon, killing seven people and wounding four others before killing himself, police said.
Four victims and the gunman were dead when police arrived on the scene at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel, Brookfield Police Chief Daniel Tushaus said. Three others died after being taken to Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa.
Six of the dead were males, ages 15, 17, 44, 50, 58 and 72. The other was a 55-year-old woman. The four surviving victims included three females, including a 10-year-old who was in stable condition at Children's Hospital, and a 20-year-old man.
Police identified the shooter as a 45-year-old man. He used a handgun in the shootings, police said.
Police did not immediately release the names of any of the victims or the gunman.
The shootings occurred at a regularly scheduled Living Church of God gathering in a meeting room at the hotel shortly before 1 p.m. Police said the gunman was in some way affiliated with the church.
The church had met weekly at the Brookfield Sheraton for the past four or five years, police said.
No other suspects are being sought in the incident.
A Toyota pickup truck was towed from the scene and investigators descended on a New Berlin neighborhood, where police had shut down the 1400 block of S. Parkview Ave.
New Berlin mayor Ted Wysocki said officers from his city had been called in to help after the shooting. "We're doing an investigation at the behest of the Brookfield Police Department," Wysocki said.
The hotel, at 375 S. Moorland Road, is in a busy area just off of Interstate 94 near the Brookfield Square Mall. Several other events were happening in the hotel at the time of the shootings.
Maybe someone tried to make him hold a rattlesnake? No? Well...just guessing.
Wasn't there a massacre in Wisconsin just a few months ago, with the hunters up north? What's going on up there??
I wish all these shooters would just do us all a BIG favor
and just do themselves first.....why cause others to suffer?
Briefing in approximately 4 hours..just heard it on CNN.
As my friends live west of Milwaukee and out of the "dreaded Milwaukee country", it seems more psychos are coming out of those western burbs (Brookfield, New Berlin, et.al.)
can I still drop off my rental car???
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But...but...Wisconsin bans carrying a firearm so that everyone will be "safe." This cannot have happened.
bump for later