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    Radcliffe F. Haughton, 45 shot his wife at Azana Spa

    Gunman kills 3 women, wounds 4 others, then commits suicide at Azana Spa in Brookfield

    Brookfield - Three women were killed and four wounded in a domestic violence shooting rampage late Sunday morning at the Azana Salon & Spa, across the street from Brookfield Square Mall.

    Radcliffe F. Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, the suspected shooter, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound within the spa.

    Haughton's estranged wife, Zina, had reported Oct. 4 that her tires were slashed while she worked at the spa. Four days later, she obtained a temporary restraining order against him, and he was served with that order on Oct. 11, said Daniel Tushaus, Brookfield Police Chief.

    On Oct. 18, a Milwaukee court issued a four-year restraining order against Haughton.

    It was not known if Haughton's wife was a victim Sunday. Police were still working to identify the three women who were killed, Tushaus said.

    The four wounded women - ages 22, 30, 32 and 40 - were taken to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa. All the women are expected to survive, hospital officials said Sunday evening. The women were not identified. One of the four was undergoing surgery early Sunday night and was in critical condition. A second had already undergone surgery, and was in satisfactory condition. A third was stabilized, and scheduled for surgery later Sunday night. A fourth did not require surgery, but was admitted, hospital officials said.

    Details of the injuries, including the number of times victims were shot, were not provided. Dr. Gary Seabrook, director of surgical services, said four patients were brought to the hospital "with multiple gun shot wounds to their extremities."

    The chaotic incident sent people scrambling to flee the spa, including one woman who ran, screaming, into traffic on Moorland Road.

    "She ran right out into the street and was pounding on cars," said David Gosh of West Allis, who had been returning from duck hunting earlier Sunday with his father, John, and a friend, Ben Luedke.

    Gosh said that moments later, a man with a handgun ran out and appeared to be chasing the girl.

    Just then, Gosh said, police began streaming to the scene, and the gunman, seeing them, ran back into the building. Gosh and his father were fairly certain they saw the man appear at an upstairs window and pull a shade down.

    John Gosh said he then saw two women come out of the building who had been shot. Both were bloody, he said; one appeared to be shot in the leg and the other appeared to have been shot in the back.

    According to Tushaus and other law enforcement officials who spoke at a press conference early Sunday evening, the shooting happened at 11:09 a.m. at the spa, 200 N. Moorland Road.

    When officers got into the building they found three women dead at the scene, and helped evacuate the other victims as well as others who were inside the building - about a dozen in all. There was smoke in the building due to a small fire in a hallway that they believe was started by the suspect. Earlier in the day, law enforcement officials had reported that they encountered an improvised explosive device. But at the evening press conference, they said the source of the fire was a one-pound propane tank. They were not sure if the suspect brought it to the salon or if it was left by workers who had done general contracting work at the site.

    Police acknowledged at a 3:30 p.m. press conference that they had still not cleared the entire building, and they asked the public for help in finding the suspect. Later, they said the slow progress was the result of the fire, and the nature of the spa, which Tushaus estimated was about 9,000 square feet. A reception desk is directly inside the entrance of the building. To the left are hairdressing stations, with a waiting area for customers to the right. Pedicure stations are behind the reception desk and a large, curving staircase leads up to a second floor that is dimly lighted with multiple small rooms for spa treatments and massages.

    For much of the afternoon, Moorland Road was closed between I-94 and W. Blue Mound Road, and Brookfield Square Mall was mostly shut down. Police kept attempting to clear out the parking lot and keep bystanders and passersby to a minimum. For a while, they were searching cars in the parking lot, as well as outlot buildings located across the street from the spa.

    Numerous jurisdictions assisted in the effort, included Wauwatosa, Town of Lisbon, Waukesha, Hales Corners, West Allis, Elm Grove, Town of Waukesha, Sussex and Menomonee Falls - in addition to both the city and county of Milwaukee.

    'Screaming, yelling'

    The scene across the street, at the Brookfield Square Mall, was a mixture of confusion and concern.

    A bystander in the east parking lot of Brookfield Square, identified as Christopher Pfeiffer, 47, of Brookfield, said he was coming from church at Spring Creek church in Pewaukee when he pulled into the Barnes & Noble bookstore and saw a young girl running in the aisles of the parking lot. It's not known if it was the same woman Gosh saw.

    "She was screaming, yelling, crying hysterical. She was pleading for help," Pfeiffer said. "She kept saying, 'My mother was shot.' And she mentioned that there was a gunman. She ran into the bookstore and I followed her. But I watched her from afar."

    The man said the young woman was barefoot; he assumed she was a patron at the spa.

    Jim Reedy was heading to Brookfield Square to buy a book at Barnes & Noble when he saw squad cars and flashing lights.

    "I come out here quite a bit. This is pretty much life in the slow lane, people just going about their business," said Reedy, of Wauwatosa. "Shootings are always tragic, that goes without saying."

    Outside Bravo Cucina Italiana restaurant, waiters in white shirts and black aprons stood at the door facing toward the crime scene, ushering in diners and telling people the restaurant remained open. Folks finishing Sunday brunch walked out into the sunshine carrying plastic bags filled with leftovers and stopped to look at the emergency vehicles before continuing to their cars.

    Shoppers walked up to a Muskego police officer parked next to yellow crime scene tape and asked how they could get to their cars on the other side of the tape. Individuals were being allowed to remove their vehicles as the mall closed down.

    Curtis Grupe showed up to work his 1-5 p.m. shift at a shoe store in the mall and stood on the sidewalk outside wondering if he'd get to work on time when he learned the mall had closed.

    "I was coming down the road and saw all the helicopters and thought: What's going on?" said Grupe, who recently moved from Minnesota. "It's kind of scary, definitely. I just moved to Milwaukee and I knew it was a tougher town."

    Jenny Remshak, 22, of West Allis, was planning to shop at Boston Store. As she arrived by car, she saw a woman crawling out of the front door of the spa.

    She said the woman crawled to the north of the building, where police were waiting.

    "They scooped her up and put her in a cop car," Remshak said. "They were holding her and she was holding her arms together."

    Remshak said it appeared the woman was wounded. The woman was later placed on a stretcher and was taken to a hospital.

    Joe Coan, the general manager of Westmoor Country Club, which borders the spa, said an estimated 100 people remained at the club. He said police had ordered that they stay inside and not leave until the all-clear sign was given.

    "Fortunately, everybody is being very cooperative," he said.

    The shooting scene was less than a mile from the Sheraton Hotel in Brookfield. On March 12, 2005, seven people were killed and four wounded when Terry Michael Ratzmann opened fire at a Living Church of God service at the hotel. Ratzmann, a 44-year-old computer technician, then committed suicide.

    http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/m...175147441.html

    this is the second shooting at a spa/hair salon this week,with the wives having a restraining order against their husbands.

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    BROOKFIELD (WXOW) -- Authorities have released the cause of death for the three victims killed in Sunday's mass shooting in Brookfield.

    The Waukesha County Medical Examiner's Office says the autopsies for the three women were completed on Sunday.

    Officials say 42-year-old Zina Haughton died from multiple gunshot wounds. The second victim, 38-year-old Maelyn Lind, died from gunshot wounds to the head and chest. And the third victim, 35-year-old Cary Robuck, died from a gunshot wound to the neck.

    Authorities say the manner of death for all three victims is homicide.

    The gunman, Radcliffe Haughton, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
    http://www.wxow.com/story/19894342/c...ooting-victims

    I could only find Cary Robuck, can anybody set up an article? https://www.facebook.com/cary.robuck

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