Green Bay Press-Gazette
BELLEVUE – The man police say shot and killed two people and seriously injured another person was a former employee of the Duck Creek Kitchen + Bar who had been fired earlier in the year.
Bruce K. Pofahl was identified as the gunman by Brown County Sheriff Todd Delain during a news conference Monday morning. Pofahl killed Ian J. Simpson, 32, and Jacob T. Bartel, 35, then minutes later shot and injured 28-year-old Danny Mulligan, according to the sheriff.
The 62-year-old gunman used a 9mm in the attack Saturday night, Delain said, before police shot and killed him outside the building. The Duck Creek restaurant is inside the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center, which is attached to the Oneida Casino in Ashwaubenon.
Shooter at Wisconsin casino was a fired employee, sheriff says Share Updated: 3:24 PM EDT May 3, 2021 TODD RICHMOND Share Updated: 3:24 PM EDT May 3, 2021
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Show Transcript ANOTHER INJURED. THE CASINO IS TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN. POLICE RESPOND TO CALLS AT THE RADISSON HOTEL. POLICE SAY OFFICERS SHOT AND KILLED THE SUSPECT AND THERE IS NO MORE THREAT TO THE PUBLIC. IT APPEARS TO BE A TARGETED EVENT, NOT A RANDOM SHOOTING. IT WAS TARGETING A SPECIFIC VICTIM WHO WAS NOT THERE. HE DECIDED TO STILL SHOOT SOME OF THE VICTIM’S FRIENDS AND COWORKERS. CHERENY: A LARGE POLICE PRESENCE AND A MEDICAL CHOPPER WAS FLYING FROM THE SCENE. ONE MAN INSIDE THE CASINO SAID HE DID NOT REALIZE WHY THEY WERE BEING EVACUATED. WE GET SHUTTLED OUTSIDE. WE WALK OUTSIDE. WE ARE STILL JOKING AROUND ABOUT IT. ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HEAR A MASSIVE FLURRY OF GUNSHOTS. IT WAS CRAZY. 20-30 FOR SURE. WE TOOK OFF RUNNING TOWARD THE HIGHWA CHERENY: THE AIRPORT LO
May 3, 2021
GREEN BAY (WKOW) The Brown County Sheriff s Office released more details about the Oneida casino shooting that left three people dead, including the suspected gunman.
Officers released the names of the three people shot. Ian J. Simpson, 32, and Jacob. T Bartel, 35, both died of their injuries. Daniel L. Mulligan, 28, was shot outside the complex and remains in serious but stable condition at a Milwaukee hospital.
Officers shot and killed the suspected gunman, 62-year-old Bruce K. Pofahl.
Brown County Sheriff Todd Delain spoke at length about the shooting and law enforcement s response ata press conferenceMonday.
The shooting
The suspect used to work at the Duck Creek Kitchen and Bar, inside the Radisson on Airport Drive in Ashwaubenon. The Oneida Nation, owners of the Radisson complex, fired the man earlier this year and told him not to come back to the property.
May 3, 2021 11:46 AM
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office releases the names of those involved in a fatal shooting at the Oneida Casino in Ashwaubenon Saturday night. Bruce Pofahl shot and killed Ian Simpson and Jacob Bartel inside the Duck Creek Kitchen and Bar adjacent to the casino around 7:30 Saturday night. Pofahl also shot and seriously injured Daniel Mulligan outside the building–before being shot and killed by responding police officers. Brown County Sheriff Todd DeLain says Pofahl had recently been fired and was banned from the site. Mulligan remains in serious condition at a Milwaukee hospital. The state Division of Criminal Investigation is handling the probe into the officer-involved shooting.
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Outside of the Oneida casino where a gunman killed two people and seriously wounded a third before being killed by police late Saturday.
Updated 1:45 p.m. CDT
A man who shot and killed two people and wounded a third at a northeastern Wisconsin tribal casino restaurant had been fired from the eatery and ordered by a court to leave his former supervisor alone, according to court records.
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 wait station at close range with a 9 mm handgun as dozens of patrons looked on, Brown County Sheriff Todd Delain said Monday during a news conference in Green Bay.