Crandon shooting
2007 mass shooting in Crandon, Wisconsin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Crandon shooting was a mass murder that occurred about 2:45 a.m. CDT on October 7, 2007, at a post-homecoming party inside a duplex in Crandon, Wisconsin, United States.[5] The perpetrator, 20-year-old Tyler James Peterson (March 6, 1987 – October 7, 2007), who was a full-time deputy in the Forest County Sheriff's Department and a part-time officer with the Crandon Police Department, shot and killed six people and critically injured a seventh before committing suicide.[6] One of the victims, 18-year-old Jordanne Michele Murray, was Peterson's former girlfriend, and it was believed that a dispute within the apartment motivated the shooting.
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Crandon shooting | |
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Location | Crandon, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Date | October 7, 2007 (2007-10-07) c. 2:45 a.m. (CDT) |
Target | Crandon High School students and recent graduates |
Attack type | Mass murder, murder-suicide, mass shooting |
Weapons | |
Deaths | 7 (including the perpetrator)[4] |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrator | Tyler James Peterson |
Motive | Relationship dispute (suspected) |
The incident was retroactively identified as the first time an AR-15 style rifle was used in a mass shooting in the U.S., according to Mother Jones's mass shooting database; AR-15s have been used in mass shootings at increasing rates since the Crandon shooting.[1][2] [lower-alpha 1]