The teenagers who were wounded were shot as they exited the building, said Eric Roller, the chief of police in Antigo, a community of about 8,000 people roughly 150 miles north of Milwaukee.
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Officers who were in the high school parking lot at the time of the shooting shot the suspect. A female student has been released from the hospital, police said, and a male student was undergoing surgery on Sunday morning. Both of those teens have non-life threatening injuries.
One person was critically injured while two others suffered minor injuries in the shooting at Antigo High School on Saturday night, said Lt. Jamie Lenzer of the Antigo Fire Department.
School officials in Wisconsin say officers outside a prom where an 18-year-old opened fire, wounding two students, “prevented what might have otherwise been a disaster of unimaginable proportions”. One of them shot the person with the rifle, ending the threat, according to police.
She learned of the incident, she said, when she received a call from another mother who said police were at the school and had “somebody down” in front of the school offices.
Told cops in a statement: ‘The initial investigation and officer response indicate this was a lone shooter and a search warrant is being executed at his residence seeking any additional information pertaining to this incident’.
The Unified School District of Antigo said Wagner had approached the school with a high-powered rifle and a large ammunition clip.
Gov. Scott Walker praised the police response to the shooting, saying in a statement the actions of the Antigo Police Department “undoubtedly saved lives”.
Dylan Dewey, who graduated from Antigo a year ago, said Wagner had been dating a girl at the school who broke up with him last month.
A press release issued by the city of Antigo police told of the shooting occurring circa 11pm whilst the school prom was being held.
“It’s just unbelievable”, she told USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.
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‘It’s too bad that’s going to be the memory for those kids.
