{"id":90,"date":"2008-08-01T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/gunman-opens-fire-on-swimmers-in-wisconsin-3-dead.html"},"modified":"2008-08-01T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T06:15:00","slug":"gunman-opens-fire-on-swimmers-in-wisconsin-3-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/gunman-opens-fire-on-swimmers-in-wisconsin-3-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"Gunman opens fire on swimmers in Wisconsin; 3 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 8\/1\/2008 8:47 AM<\/p> <p>NIAGARA, Wis. (AP) _ A man wearing camouflage clothing and carrying an assault rifle walked out of the woods and shot four young people who had gathered at a river to go swimming, killing three of them and wounding one.<\/p><div><p>More than 100 law enforcement officers from at least 10 agencies searched Friday for the gunman, a middle-age man who was last seen near the town of Niagara, across the state line from Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula.<\/p><p>Officers set up roadblocks and evacuated an unknown number of homes.<\/p><p>The victims had gathered near a railroad bridge on the Menominee River when the gunman came out of the woods and opened fire about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Sheriff Jim Kanikula.<\/p><p>Two of the bodies had not been removed from the scene Friday because of a fear that the shooter was still in the area, the sheriff said.<\/p><p>The dead were identified as Tiffany Pohlson, 17; Anthony Spigarelli, 18; and Bryan Mort, 19. A fourth victim, 20-year-old Daniel Louis Gordon, was wounded.<\/p><p>Niagara is about 210 miles north of Milwaukee.<\/p><\/div> <p align=\"center\">Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.<\/p> <div id=\"summary\"><a name=\"summary\"><\/a><h4><br \/><\/h4><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 8\/1\/2008 8:47 AM NIAGARA, Wis. (AP) _ A man wearing camouflage clothing and carrying an assault rifle walked out of the woods and shot four young people who had gathered at a river to go swimming, killing three of them and wounding one.More than 100 law enforcement officers from at least 10 agencies searched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}