The Massachusetts Pirates inside restaurant during shooting at Oneida Casino Complex
Valerie Juarez
and last updated 2021-05-03 19:44:25-04
ASHWAUBENON (NBC 26) â Wrong place at the wrong time, thatâs what one professional sports team said as they were in town for a game against the Green Bay Blizzard when the unimaginable happened. Just heard two loud pops and initially you don t think it s a gun but you know we get up to see what it is and we see a guy holding a big big hand gun,â said Jawad Yatim, Massachusetts Pirates, Co-owner and Manager.
It was the night before Sundayâs game at the Resch Center and the team of about 30 was eating at the Duck Creek Kitchen and Bar.
Two people were shot dead and at least one was seriously wounded in a restaurant shooting at the Radisson Inn adjacent to the Oneida Casino in Ashwaubenon, Wisc. Saturday night, local police said. In addition, the shooter was killed by police at the scene.
Two armed police officers stand guard following a shooting at a hotel near Wisconsin’s Oneida Casino. Two victims were killed. (Image: Tami Brown/
WLUK)
The shooter was originally targeting a specific person. But that person was not present, so the shooter shot at the intended victim’s friends or co-workers who were at the restaurant, local police said.
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.
May 3, 2021
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) A gunman killed two people at a Wisconsin casino restaurant and seriously wounded a third before he was killed by police late Saturday, in what authorities said appeared to be a targeted attack.
Brown County Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Pawlak said investigators believe the gunman was seeking a specific person he was angry at.
“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,” Pawlak said.
Neither the gunman nor the shooting victims were immediately identified.
Pawlak wasn’t sure if the shooter was a former employee of the restaurant, but said “it appears there’s some relationship that had to do with employment.”
Mike Roemer
The Oneida Casino lights glow in the parking lot in the early
morning hours of Sunday, May 2nd, 2021, near Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Authorities in Wisconsin say a gunman killed two people at a Green
Bay casino restaurant and seriously wounded a third before he was
shot and killed by police Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)
Mike Roemer
Police line the parking lot outside the Oneida Casino in the
early morning hours of Sunday, May 2nd, 2021, near Green Bay,
Wisconsin. Authorities in Wisconsin say a gunman killed two people
at a Green Bay casino restaurant and seriously wounded a third