At Least 5 Youths Dead After Shooting in Wisconsin
A Wisconsin town was to have its state of lockdown lifted after a police chief said law enforcement is no longer looking for a suspect — believed to be with the local sheriff’s office — who went on a killing spree early Sunday morning, gunning down at least five youths in a Crandon home.
Crandon Police Chief John Dennee, speaking outside the police department about two blocks from the shooting site, would not say whether the suspect was dead. But he said: “We’re not looking for anybody anymore.”
A dispatcher for the State Patrol who declined to give his full name as a matter of department practice said several of the patrol’s officers went to Forest County to help investigators because the suspect is an employee of the Forest County Sheriff’s Department and a part-time officer for the Crandon Police Department.
“It’s a pretty tragic situation here,” said Forest County Supervisor Tom Vollmar, who lives just outside Crandon, a city of about 2,000 people. “There are five or six people dead.”
The State Patrol and the Crandon Fire Department detoured a steady stream of traffic from two blocks of U.S. Highway 8 in the downtown area. Some residents stood in nearby front yards.
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