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Gunman Kills Seven, Then Himself At Suburban Milwaukee Hotel
Gunfire Erupts At Church Function
POSTED: 3:43 pm CST March 12, 2005
UPDATED: 6:02 pm CST March 12, 2005
BROOKFIELD, Wis. -- A gunman opened fire Saturday during a church service at a suburban Milwaukee hotel, killing seven people and seriously wounding four others.
The gunman apparently killed himself, Brookfield Police Chief Daniel Tushaus said.
Officers found four people and the gunman dead when they arrived about 1 p.m., and three others died later at a hospital, Tushaus said.
Police were not seeking any other suspects in the shooting, which occurred during a regularly scheduled meeting of the Living Church of God at the Sheraton hotel in Brookfield, a western Milwaukee suburb, Tushaus said.
The victims were all in the same room at the hotel, Tushaus said. The suspect, a Waukesha County man of about 45 who was armed with a handgun, was affiliated with the church, which had been meeting at the hotel every Saturday morning for four or five years, he said.
Tushaus didn't identify the victims but gave approximate ages. He said two boys ages 15 and 17, a 72-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman died at the hotel. Three men, ages 58, 50 and 44, died later at a hospital.
Four others - a 52-year-old woman, a 20-year-old woman, a 20-year-old man and a 10-year-old girl - were in serious condition at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
After the shootings, some guests remained locked in their rooms after police surrounded the building, and officers would not allow anyone to enter or leave.
Matt Z., 18, of Wauwatosa, was working at a nearby mall when he saw the commotion and went into the hotel. He said he saw one room that was in disarray. "It just looked like hell in there," he said.
Karen Suick, 48, said she arrived at the hotel Friday night with 15 players and parents for a hockey tournament. "One of our hockey dad's two daughters are still in there," she said. "They called his cell phone. They were OK, but they were told to go back to their room. So that's what they did."
Jeff Hietpas, 35, of Fond du Lac, said he thought the shooting happened near his hotel room but he was at a hockey game when it happened. "I don't know what the hell would have happened if we were there," he said.
Hietpas said his group still planned to stay at the hotel Saturday night. "We are going to play risk management," Hietpas said.
At least two church groups were holding meetings in the hotel at the time of the shootings, police said.
Associated Press writers Carrie Antlfinger in Brookfield and Juliet Williams in Wauwatosa contributed to this report.
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(Edited by Volk on request of the person mentioned in the news)
