Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Shooting is at least the 11th in Wisconsin since 2004.

Molson Coors rampage is at least 11th recorded

- From Staff Reports Compiled by Mike Johnson and Lou Saldivar of the Journal Sentinel and Jordan Tilkens of USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.

The fatal shootings at Molson Coors on Wednesday were at least the 11th mass shooting in Wisconsin since 2004.

The U.S. Justice Department defines a mass shooting as three or more killings in a single episode.

1. Nov. 21, 2004: Six people were killed when Chai Soua Vang, a 36-yearold Hmong immigrant and naturalize­d U.S. citizen, shot eight people while deer hunting east of Birchwood in northern Wisconsin. A truck driver from St. Paul, Minn., Vang was sentenced to six consecutiv­e life terms in prison, plus 165 years in confinement, on Nov. 9, 2005.

2. March 12, 2005: Seven people were killed and four wounded when Terry Michael Ratzmann opened fire at a Living Church of God service at the Sheraton hotel in Brookfield. Ratzmann, a 44year-old computer technician, then committed suicide.

3. June 9, 2007: Five people were killed in Delavan when Ambrosio Analco entered an upper flat and shot his twin infant boys, his estranged wife, her sister and a friend. Analco, 23, then shot and killed himself.

4. Oct. 7, 2007: Six people were killed and one was wounded when Forest County Sheriff 's Deputy Tyler James Peterson went on a shooting rampage at his ex-girlfriend's apartment. Peterson, 20, then shot and killed himself.

5. July 4, 2008: Four people were killed and two wounded in an assaultrif­le attack when three men fired dozens of shots into a group of about 100 people gathered for an after-hours party in the 2500 block of North 28th Street in Milwaukee.

6. Aug. 5, 2012: Six people were killed and four wounded when Wade Michael Page, 40, opened fire at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. Page was taken down by a shot from an Oak Creek police officer, then killed himself.

7. Oct. 21, 2012: Three people were killed and four wounded when Radcliffe Haughton, 45, went on a shooting rampage at the Azana Salon & Spa in Brookfield, where his wife worked. Haughton then shot himself inside the spa.

8. May 3, 2015: Sergio Valencia del Toro killed three people and injured a fourth when he opened fired on the Fox Cities Trestle Trail bridge in Menasha. The gunmen shot himself in the head and died later at a hospital.

9. March 22, 2017: Nengmy Vang killed four people — his wife's divorce attorney, her co-workers and a police detective in Weston. Vang was shot during a standoff and died from his wounds the morning of April 1.

10. July 28, 2019: Ritchie German Jr. killed three of his family members and a 24-year-old woman authoritie­s believe he was trying to abduct in Lake Hallie. German killed himself and injured two others in the rampage.

11. Feb. 26, 2020: At least six people were killed — including a gunman — during a shooting rampage on the Milwaukee campus of Molson Coors, according to multiple sources.

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