This is scary, my brother played 11-12year old Baseball with Sean. My step-dad coached the team. All though my brother does not remember Sean, my mom sure does.
Neenah boy, 16, dies of gunshot
Police have teens in custody for burglary to home
By John Lee and Steve Wideman
Post-Crescent staff writers
NEENAH — A 16-year-old boy who was found shot at his home Tuesday afternoon died Wednesday.
Winnebago County Coroner Barry Busby said Sean Veirauch was pronounced dead shortly after 4 p.m. at Theda Clark Medical Center. He said an autopsy would be conducted today by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office.
Police took two Neenah boys, ages 14 and 15, into custody Wednesday in connection with a burglary that occurred just before Veirauch was shot.
Dist. Atty. Bill Lennon said he would meet with police this morning to discuss the incident. He said officials aren’t sure yet if Veirauch’s death was a homicide, suicide or accidental.
"We can all imagine circumstances where it could be an accident," he said. "(Police) don't know. They have to find out who was there."
Police said the shooting of Veirauch, a junior at Neenah High School, was related to the burglary of a neighbor's home.
Two minutes before an ambulance was called to the Veirauch home at 547 Fairview Ave., a resident at 555 Fairview Ave., told police he discovered someone had entered his home by removing a bathroom window. Money and a small-caliber handgun were taken.
When police interviewed the 14- and 15-year-olds Wednesday, the boys implied that guns might be found in the Fox River near Riverside Park in Neenah. A Winnebago County Sheriff's Department dive team recovered two guns from the river around 3:25 p.m.
Police said information from the teens implicates them in the Fairview Avenue burglary. Officers said they are trying to determine if one of the weapons recovered was from the burglary and whether either of the guns was the one used in the Veirauch shooting.
Neenah High School Principal Mark Duerwaechter said Wednesday night school officials will attend Veirauch's funeral and officials are providing assistance to students.
"We do have a crisis plan that does include a counseling plan for students going through the grieving process," Duerwaechter said. He said school officials spent Wednesday working with many students in multiple peer groups.
Veirauch was found by his younger sister at the family home at 547 Fairview Ave.
It wasn't until Veirauch was at the hospital that police discovered that he had suffered a gunshot wound to the eye from a small-caliber pistol.
Police said Wednesday evening they are continuing their investigation and interviewing the boys "to determine what if any role they played in the shooting."
John Lee can be reached at 920-993-1000, ext. 362, or by e-mail at jlee@postcrescent. com.
a Neenah teen shot and killed in his own house!
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StormCrazyIowan wrote:Oh my god!! What an awful story!!! Is there ANY good news today?
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This is why my "interior defense" plans accommodate a multiple-attackers scenario (gangs of amateurs, kids, who may show up armed...a "pro" burglar wouldn't carry a piece).
All my "good stuff", i.e. property which can be fenced easily, is on the first floor...if they ascend the staircase, however, they ain't looking for "goods", and I can easily defend myself and family from the second floor landing (the staircase can only allow ONE to pass at any time; more than that, they'd be "ducks in a row", and easily dispensed with one at a time). For the military historians in here, think "Thermopylae".
All my "good stuff", i.e. property which can be fenced easily, is on the first floor...if they ascend the staircase, however, they ain't looking for "goods", and I can easily defend myself and family from the second floor landing (the staircase can only allow ONE to pass at any time; more than that, they'd be "ducks in a row", and easily dispensed with one at a time). For the military historians in here, think "Thermopylae".
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To hear it said, unless I'm saying it wrong, Thermopylae sounds like another game that Hasbro would fuss about.
Seriously, I got it. What was it -- Greeks and Persians? The small army of Greeks retreated and led the large army of Persians through some small pass and knocked them out quickly since only a minimum number could get through at a time. Like you said, ducks in a row.
Seriously, I got it. What was it -- Greeks and Persians? The small army of Greeks retreated and led the large army of Persians through some small pass and knocked them out quickly since only a minimum number could get through at a time. Like you said, ducks in a row.
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480 BC; King Xerxes decides to finish what his father, King Darius, left undone...to annex the Greek city-states as Persian satrapies.
The Athenians had the best navy in the known world; the Spartans, the most discplined and ferocious army. Both were miniscule against the estimated 250,000-man Persian invasion, not counting its fleet.
It was decided that the best chance for the Greeks would to take up position at a narrow seaside pass from Thrace to the lower peninsula, called Thermopylae; also known as the place where Heracles (Hercules) breathed his last, and therefore holy ground, especially to the Spartans.
The Spartans had two kings...because of religious ceremonies, only one of these, Leonidas, was allowed to leave with his personal guard, 300 married warriors who had fathered children (therefore, they had done their duty to Sparta, and were "expendable"). If they held, the remainder of the Spartan army would come later.
Leonidas was met at Thermopylae by 10,000 Athenians, 1,000 Boeotians and some Thracians; Xerxes' juggernaut arrived in mid-August, and took four days to assemble and disperse in battle formation.
Once the Persians joined battle, the Greeks, led by Spartans, decimated all who came for five days; the Athenian navy kept a sea strike by the Persians from being attempted. Only a line about 20 men wide could be at the front in the pass at any time, and the Spartans took advantage of the Persian confusion well enough. (When told that Persians had so many bowmen that their arrows would block the sunlight, one Spartan is reported to have said, "Then we can fight in the shade".)
A Greek traitor showed Xerxes a goat pass, over the mountains that barred the landward side of Thermopylae; hearing of this, Leonidas had all but his Spartan guard retreat south to Athens, and he and his warriors fought to the death or were killed on the spot...by archers (which were considered "cowards" by Greeks), shooting hail after hail of arrows (Xerxes didn't want to waste any more men on a close-quarters assault).
The ancient pass is now three miles inland, but on that site is a stone plaque...Tell the Spartans that we lie here, in obedience to their laws. Three weeks after, the Athenian navy defeated the Persians in a narrow sea strait called Salamis; the remaining Persian army suffered defeat a month later by a combined all-Greek force, commanded by...you guessed it...SPARTANS.
Class dismissed; pop quiz on Friday, before the costume party!!!
The Athenians had the best navy in the known world; the Spartans, the most discplined and ferocious army. Both were miniscule against the estimated 250,000-man Persian invasion, not counting its fleet.
It was decided that the best chance for the Greeks would to take up position at a narrow seaside pass from Thrace to the lower peninsula, called Thermopylae; also known as the place where Heracles (Hercules) breathed his last, and therefore holy ground, especially to the Spartans.
The Spartans had two kings...because of religious ceremonies, only one of these, Leonidas, was allowed to leave with his personal guard, 300 married warriors who had fathered children (therefore, they had done their duty to Sparta, and were "expendable"). If they held, the remainder of the Spartan army would come later.
Leonidas was met at Thermopylae by 10,000 Athenians, 1,000 Boeotians and some Thracians; Xerxes' juggernaut arrived in mid-August, and took four days to assemble and disperse in battle formation.
Once the Persians joined battle, the Greeks, led by Spartans, decimated all who came for five days; the Athenian navy kept a sea strike by the Persians from being attempted. Only a line about 20 men wide could be at the front in the pass at any time, and the Spartans took advantage of the Persian confusion well enough. (When told that Persians had so many bowmen that their arrows would block the sunlight, one Spartan is reported to have said, "Then we can fight in the shade".)
A Greek traitor showed Xerxes a goat pass, over the mountains that barred the landward side of Thermopylae; hearing of this, Leonidas had all but his Spartan guard retreat south to Athens, and he and his warriors fought to the death or were killed on the spot...by archers (which were considered "cowards" by Greeks), shooting hail after hail of arrows (Xerxes didn't want to waste any more men on a close-quarters assault).
The ancient pass is now three miles inland, but on that site is a stone plaque...Tell the Spartans that we lie here, in obedience to their laws. Three weeks after, the Athenian navy defeated the Persians in a narrow sea strait called Salamis; the remaining Persian army suffered defeat a month later by a combined all-Greek force, commanded by...you guessed it...SPARTANS.
Class dismissed; pop quiz on Friday, before the costume party!!!
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