By Kelly Fisher
Police fatally shot a gunman who appeared to target a Wisconsin casino over the weekend.
Two people were killed and another was wounded in the incident at Oneida Casino in Green Bay. It happened late Saturday night (May 1), the
“He was targeting a specific victim who was not there, but he decided to still shoot some of the victim’s friends or co-workers, it appears,” Brown County Sheriff’s Lt.
Kevin Pawlak said of the gunman during a news conference. He added, “it appears there’s some relationship that had to do with employment.”
WLUK-TV reported Monday (May 3) that that the gunman was a former employee of the Duck Creek Kitchen + Bar at the casino. He shot and killed two of the employees at the waiter station.
Authorities: Suspect in Green Bay casino shooting was former employee
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Authorities in Wisconsin identified the gunman in a shooting that killed two people at the Oneida Casino in Green Bay as Bruce K. Pofahl, 62, an employee who had been fired and barred from the property. Photo courtesy Oneida Casino
May 3 (UPI) Authorities on Monday identified a fired employee as the suspect who opened fire near the Oneida Casino in Wisconsin, killing two people and injuring another in a weekend mass shooting.
The Brown County Sheriff s Office on Monday said Bruce Pofahl opened fire at his former workplace, the Duck Creek Kitchen and Bar at the Radisson Hotel & Convention Center in Green Bay, where he shot and killed employees Ian Simpson, 32, and Jacob Bartel, 35 on Saturday.
Police fatally shoot gunman who killed 2 at Wisconsin casino
Investigators believe the gunman was targeting a specific person he was angry at, but the person wasn t at the Oneida Casino at the time.
Credit: AP
The Oneida Casino lights glow in the parking lot in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 2nd, 2021, near Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer) Author: Associated Press Updated: 3:07 PM PDT May 2, 2021
Tribal leaders in northeastern Wisconsin were in shock Sunday hours after a gunman opened fire at their casino complex, killing two people and wounding another in what witnesses described as a hailstorm of bullets.