Police: Shooter at Wis. apartment complex kills two people, then himself
BROWN DEER, Wis. — A man fatally shot two people at an apartment complex in a Milwaukee suburb and later died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Three people, including the suspect, were killed and one other person was injured in Saturday morning’s shooting, which authorities believe began as a “domestic dispute,” Brown Deer Police Chief Peter Nimmer said.
He said the 26-year-old suspect shot himself and was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Nimmer said a 31-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman were also killed. A 36-year-old man was shot in the leg.
A child in the apartment was not hurt, he said.
Nimmer said he did not know the “relationships of all involved.”
Nimmer said police were called to the Park Plaza Court apartments shortly after 10 a.m. following a report of a “possible victim in the parking lot.” The suspect fired shots at officers from the second floor but none was hurt although a police car was hit, he said.
“No officer from our department or any other department returned fire,” Nimmer said.
Officers afterward heard only one more round fired — likely the self-inflicted gunshot, according to Nimmer.
Local news outlets reported earlier that police vehicles, ambulances and fire department vehicles had gathered outside the apartment complex and that a Milwaukee County medical examiner had been called to the scene.