Police chief: 4 dead, including suspect, 1 hurt in random shooting on Wisconsin bridge

[azurnoir]

Source: Strib

Four people are dead and one person is injured after a man opened fire on a bridge in a small city in eastern Wisconsin in what police described as a random shooting.

The shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Menasha on the Fox Cities Trestle Trail bridge that spans Little Lake Butte des Morts, according to Menasha police.

Police Chief Tim Styka said the shooter was among those who died. The man was pronounced dead at a hospital.

"At this point we do not believe there is any other threat to the community," Styka said. "We think this was a random act. It does not appear that anyone was targeted."

"Around the country every day it seems to happen somewhere or every other day. I never ever thought I'd be standing here talking about this and having such a situation like this happen in our community," Taylor said.

Read more: http://www.startribune.com/local/302378721.html

[Ed Suspicious]

1. Just going to add the coverage from the Wisconsin Group in order to flesh out the story further.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/108416138

[lsewpershad]

2. What we need

is more guns:

[Ed Suspicious]

5. It's funny, tragically, that the response on the Menasha PD's Facebook is mostly decent people not

talking politics while this is raw, but there are a few who expressed what you did, (which I assume is sarcasm)(also I agree with you in the spirit you intended if it is sarcasm) and there is another faction crying out that this is exactly why we need more easy access to guns. There there was some guy talking about psy ops agents or some stupid shit.

"Gotta love false flag psych ops with crisis actors setting up problem,reaction, solution, the agenda leading to disarming we the people. your false flags don't work anymore. FOFL."

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Oooof

Some days, y'all.

[blm]

4. Appears to be another ex-military shooter with mental issues.

Sad condition.

For Ed...Thank you for the updates you posted in the Wisconsin group - they really helped getting a grasp of this tragedy.

[Ed Suspicious]

7. You're welcome. It's strange how these sort of things go from random occurance that

I snark about in passing while trying to make a political point when it's not in my back yard then it morphs to something very different and very visceral and real when it is close to home.

I think if I learned anything from this tragedy it is to maybe tread a little more lightly initially following these tragedies because these are real people in real communities shaken to their core and just trying to figure out what the hell just happened.

[blm]

9. And many times the 'evil' turns out to be yet another mentally ill person who needed

treatment, but, somehow, was left untreated or didn't complete treatment.

As the sibling of a schizophrenic, I am well aware of what they can do when they are not using their medication.

[Ed Suspicious]

10. My mother and cousin both suffer from the malady. My mother has hers well under control,

but my cousin was institutionalized by the state of Arizona for some poorly understood (at least poorly understood on my part) infraction that resulted from him refusing to medicate any longer.

[BrotherIvan]

6. Every day, there's more than one

"Around the country every day it seems to happen somewhere or every other day. I never ever thought I'd be standing here talking about this and having such a situation like this happen in our community," Taylor said.

WHEN will we stop the madness and DO something about it?

[Skittles]

12. we can't - gun humping cowards have WON

THIS is the new norm

[bvar22]

14. Rats in overpopulated cages do the same thing,

...but I believe they eat the bodies.

I don't believe we are there yet, but we are certainly heading in that direction.

[BrotherIvan]

15. Well they are trying their best to make this country Room 101

Or some kind of Mad Max distopia. That's why their voices should not carry so much legitemacy. If a person is so gripped with fear, fear of the world and life itself, they cannot be trusted to make sound decisions for the rest who are not.

[Archae]

8. Where's all the outrage over what religion this guy is?

No doubt the guy is a Christian.

"Oh that's different!"

[GoneFishin]

18. Well, at least you know one religion he is NOT.

[samsingh]

22. this was not done for religion. disgusting try.

[Greybnk48]

11. Less than 5 miles from our home.

This is horrible. This nut randomly tried to take out an entire family because he broke up with his girlfriend. Former Air Force, student at U.W. Oshkosh, and about to go back into the Army. I refuse to mention the murderer's name.

[samsingh]

23. and yet he is allowed to have guns

[OldRedneck]

13. No doubt this was Loretta Lynch in action

Likely a Loretta Lynch false flag operation to set up her gun-grabbing agenda.

Am I right or am I rightwingbatshitcrazy???

[Sunlei]

16. shoots members of a random family & self-suicides over an 'argument' with his ex-fiancee.

The Family, can you imagine, the 5 of them out for a walk on the bridge observation spot and a man stops his bike and starts shooting them.

[Greybnk48]

20. The Police Chief fought back tears today when he read their names

at a local press conference. He read the names of the family that was gunned down along with a young man just out for an evening walk, but would not mention the murderer's name except for one time. After that it was just "the shooter." We've had exceptionally beautiful weather here in the Fox Valley recently and everyone is outside enjoying it after a bitter cold winter. The park was probably full of people enjoying the lake and watching people fish. I just can't even imagine this.

[samsingh]

24. it would be nice if the police can collectively come to their senses

and do things to stop gun violence and stop killing black men

[randome]

17. So if Rush Limbaugh says Obama green-lighted the Texas shooting...

...I wonder what he'll have to say about Scott Walker's complicity in this?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[LeftinOH]

19. Immediately prior to this.. he was a "responsible gun owner",

wasn't he? Most spree-shooters obtained their weapons via perfeclty legal means.

[samsingh]

21. another group of people killed so that gun lovers can have their guns