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.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) A man who shot and killed two people and wounded a third at a northeastern Wisconsin tribal casino restaurant before police killed him had been fired from the eatery and banned from the property, authorities said Monday.
Bruce Pofahl, 62, walked into the Duck Creek Kitchen and Bar in Green Bay on Saturday and shot Ian Simpson, 32, and Jacob Bartel, 35, at a waiter station at close range with a 9 mm handgun as dozens of patrons looked on, Brown County Sheriff Todd Delain said during a news conference in Green Bay.
Pofahl then went outside and shot another restaurant employee, 28-year-old Daniel Mulligan, the sheriff said. A team of Green Bay police officers opened fire on Pofahl, killing him. Mulligan was in serious but stable condition at a Milwaukee hospital on Monday, Delain said.
Updated on May 4, 2021 at 9:25 pm
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A 28-year-old man from Methuen, Massachusetts is in a Milwaukee hospital after a shooting at the Oneida Casino over the weekend.
Daniel Mulligan was shot while working at Duck Creek Kitchen and Bar in Green Bay on Saturday. Two other men were killed after a gunman opened fire at the restaurant casino complex operated by the Oneida Nation, whose reservation is located on the western side of Green Bay about four miles from Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers.
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