Officer Killed in the line of Duty

[pojo]

Deputy Killed
October 20, 2003


GREEN LAKE, Wis. (AP) - A standoff ended early Monday between officers and a man who shot and killed a Green Lake County
sheriff's deputy responding to a report of a domestic incident, authorities said.

Deputy Bruce Williams, 38, of Berlin was shot and killed after being called to the apartment around 4:15 p.m. Sunday, Green Lake County district attorney James Camp said Monday.

When authorities entered Arik Tonn's apartment around 4 a.m. Monday, they found Tonn man dead inside, Waushara County District Attorney Guy Dutcher said.

Dutcher said officials received a call around 4:15 p.m. Sunday reporting a domestic incident requiring multiple officers to respond.

Dutcher said shots were fired, and the deputy was killed.

"This is a very good man," Dutcher said of the slain deputy. "This is a tremendously sad and catastrophic event."

He said he did not know if authorities shot at Tonn, who then holed himself up in the apartment building.

Michelle Foote, who owns the 12-unit building, said a husband and wife in their 20s and their two young children have lived in the unit since moving from Oshkosh in July.

She said a dispute between the couple erupted Sunday afternoon, and the wife left the building with the children to call police.

She said the man had fired multiple shots with a high-powered rifle, causing the building's two main water pipes to burst. Water gushed inside for more than 12 hours, and residents were not allowed back in the building by Monday morning.

She said she never had any problems with the tenants in the unit where the standoff occurred.

"I'm really surprised, it's shocking to me," Foote said. "I haven't had any complaints."

Dutcher said the other people involved in the domestic incident were safe and no longer with the man. He would not confirm reports from Ripon radio station WRPN that, at one time, an infant was being held hostage.

The district attorney said authorities had contacted people in
the immediate area and some were evacuated. The area around the apartment building was still blocked off to traffic and residents Monday morning.

David Milovanovich said he was stopped by officers when he tried
to return to his apartment in the building after going shopping
Sunday afternoon.

Milovanovich, 48, said his apartment was one of about 24 units
in two buildings at the complex.

His 52-year-old wife, Irene, said water began dripping through their ceiling after the incident began. Their apartment is on the opposite side of the building and below where the suspect lives, she said.

The Milovanovichs said the man lived with a woman, and the couple had a toddler girl. David Milovanovich said the man was in his early 20s.

"He's not mean. He's just strange," Milovanovich said. "He was a loner."

Residents of Green Lake Manor, an assisted living center for the elderly that's diagonal to the apartment building, were told to remain inside, employee Gertrude Zahnow said.

About six other people who were outside when the incident began were also staying inside the manor, she said.

Authorities from the Wisconsin State Patrol; Ripon, Berlin and Green Lake police departments; and the sheriff's departments from Green Lake, Fond du Lac, Marquette and Columbia counties responded.

Negotiators and an armored vehicle from Winnebago County were also called to the scene.

[TexasStooge]

Oh boy, another Officer shot at the line of duty.

Man, that brings back the memories of the December 2000 shooting at an Oshman's store, where an Officer was killed by the Texas Seven who robbed the store.