Cop, bank workers, lawyer IDd as shooting victims
WESTON, Wis. — A man angry after a domestic dispute opened fire in a Wisconsin bank, killing two longtime employees, then killed an attorney at a nearby law firm and a detective trying to set a perimeter outside his apartment complex before he was finally captured, police said. His wife was unhurt.
The man, whom police would not identify, was hospitalized Thursday under police guard with nonfatal wounds, police said.
Citing an ongoing investigation, police released few other details of the shootings on Wednesday, including why the attorney was targeted and where the man’s wife was. They said investigators had worked through the night to process multiple crime scenes and had more work ahead.
“It was a domestic incident,” Everest Metro Police Chief Wally Sparks said. He called it an isolated incident that “evolved into tragic crimes.”
The victims were identified as Everest Metro police Detective Jason Weiland, 40; Marathon Savings Bank employees Dianne Look, 67, and Karen Barclay, 62 and attorney Sarah Quirt Sann, 43.
Officials said Weiland was among officers who responded to the apartment complex in Weston following attacks at the bank in nearby Rothschild and the law firm in Schofield. The suspect was taken into custody after a standoff at the apartment complex.
Weiland spent 18 years in law enforcement, all in the Wausau area, including the last 15 years with the Everest Metro police force. He is survived by a wife and two children.
Look had been the branch manager at Marathon Savings since 1998, when she and her family returned to Wisconsin from South Dakota. She is survived by her husband of 25 years and their two children.
Barclay moved to Wisconsin in 1993 and had worked at the bank for more than five years. She is survived by a daughter and two granddaughters, ages four and seven.
Dozens of police vehicles were parked Thursday in front of the apartment complex, which was ringed by yellow crime-scene tape. Jason Smith, a deputy administrator for the state Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation, said more than 100 officers were investigating.