'Human Carnage' at Brookfield Hotel
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This is an undated photo of Terry Ratzmann, the gunman in the
massacre at a church meeting
at a Brookfield hotel. The
photo was released by the Brookfield Police Department.
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This photo of Terry Ratzmann was obtained from his personal Web site.
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Police converge on the Sheraton hotel just off Interstate 94 in
Brookfield after reports
of multiple shootings just before 1 p.m.
Sunday.
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Young hotel guests peek out their room window as the investigation
goes on.
(Photo Tom Lynn.)
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Mary Kay Balchunas, a chaplain from Children's Hospital, is led into
the Sheraton
Saturday afternoon following the shootings. (Photo Tom
Lynn.)
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Brookfield Police Chief Daniel Tushaus addresses the media on the
shootings.
(Photo Jeffrey Phelps.)
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A pickup truck believed to belong to the gunman is towed from the
hotel by police after the shootings.
(Photo Mary Jo Walicki.)
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Church member Chandra Frazier, clutching a Bible, is escorted from
the hotel Saturday evening.
She later described some of the events
for reporters. (Photo Jeffrey Phelps.)
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A grieving woman is escorted from the hotel by authorities hours
after the shootings.
(Photo Jeffrey Phelps.)
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An unidentified man comforts a boy as a sheriff's deputy talks to
them
near a doorway to the Sheraton. (Photo Jeffrey Phelps.)
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Memorials are placed in a snow bank near the hotel Saturday evening.
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Crosses for the seven victims of a shooting stand outside the
Sheraton hotel in Brookfield, Wis.,
with an eighth cross for the
gunman separated from the rest.
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An investigator enters the home of the apparent gunman, Terry
Ratzmann, who lived
in New Berlin with his mother and sister. (Photo
Benny Sieu.)
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