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Deputies search for suspect in Wis. mall shooting

Posted: Sun 3:23 PM, Oct 21, 2012

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) - Deputies are searching for a shooter after multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall.

Brookfield police told WTMJ-AM the shooting happened about 11 a.m. Sunday at a spa across the street from the Brookfield Square Mall. The mall and a county club adjacent to the spa were locked down, local media reported.

Milwaukee FBI spokesman Leonard Peace said its SWAT team, hostage negotiators and others were helping with the response. But he declined to say how many FBI personnel were involved in all or provide details on what had happened.

Robert Schmidt, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said it had 10 agents participating.

A spokeswoman for Froedtert Memorial Hospital, said four shooting victims were taken there, and three more were expected.


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