6 friends killed at party in Crandon (WI) - 1 hurt; hours later, SWAT team kills shooter

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 10/7/07 | RAQUEL RUTLEDGE

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We will keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

[CindyDawg]

No trial. He’s dead.

[null and void]

This will probably be factored in at his trial.

Or would be, if he were still alive...

[Brad’s Gramma]

Prayers UP for your daughter’s step-nephew!!!!

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Oh, and welcome to FR. I wish it were on a happier occasion...

[sarasmom]

Prayers sent for all the victims, their families, friends and neighbors.

[SE Mom]

Welcome to FR, sorry you came here for such a sad reason.

There seem to be a lot of rumors - I’ve heard there was another police officer killed ..then heard he was slightly injured but not dead.. Also heard that after leaving the house where he shooting happened- he roamed around the town shooting at the officers who were trying to get him in custody. FOX news reported earlier that witnesses heard up to 30 shots being fired after he left the house..

Maybe it makes more sense to you since you live there- but is there a reason why law enforcement has kept so much under wraps- for so many hours? They seem to be enforcing a news blackout.

My prayers are with your town.

[Ken H]

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

The suspect is believed to be a sheriff's deputy, and possibly a member of the Forest County Swat Team, according to WTMJ Radio in Crandon.

http://www.startribune.com/484/story/1469746.html

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That has more, newer detail. Maybe worth a thread of it’s own?

I note that the spin machine has started, the photo caption describes him as “a law enforcement employee”...

[El Gato]

Of course it turned out to be a part time Cop that killed those people. But, according to the Brady Bunch, and the other grabber groups, only the police and military can be trusted to have guns. The MSM is of course reporting 7 dead, which includes the killer, but it's still "7 dead from gun violence".

Bastids.

[MinuteGal]

Very apropos.

Leni

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Of course it turned out to be a part time Cop that killed those people.

Nope. He was a FULL time cop in Forest Co. He was also a part time (moonlighting) cop in Crandon.

[El Gato]

He’ll be gently taken into custody and then the “cops can do no evil” crowd will have months before his trial to think of millions of reasons why society pushed this honorable man over the edge.

Of course by now you know your slap at police in general is completely wrong. A police sniper shot him, dead. Saved the state a whole bunch of money too.

[Eastbound]

Well, I just turned on the computer and saw this and succumbed to the temptation to get involved before I read through all the replies.

Prayers for all involved.

-- Dave

[null and void]

Thanks. I miss Douglas Adams, his insight into the human condition was marvelous.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

may preserve an unpolluted jury pool. Good luck with that

That many victims in a town that tiny? They would never been able to empanel a local jury. Thakfully this is now a moot point.

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Yeah. Fortunately, I've never posted before reading the article and the whole thread first...

Wanna buy a bridge?...

[null and void]

As I said, good luck with that!

[I see my hands]

"you will get used to the pace that we.."

We? Got a mouse in your pocket or are you one of the elite?

You're too funny! ('cept for that misrepresenting what others post thing).

[El Gato]

Why do cops even need guns, if everybody else is already disarmed? ... (Wisconsin has no concealed carry law, I understand

True, but that law doesn't affect long guns, nor possession of handguns. The people in general are hardly disarmed of effective weapons.

Even if they did have concealed carry, it probably wouldn't have helped. Almost all CHL laws restrict it to people no younger than 21, and all the victims, and the killer, were under 21 in this case.

You also have a point though, they were in effect disarmed, because no one takes their Mini-14 or "Serious Social Purposes" Rem 870 to a party, except maybe on an "out the vehicle" basis. If the party goers had any access to firearms, it would have had to have been those owned by the hosts.