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MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) – The only suspect in a workplace in southeastern Wisconsin, shooting Wednesday morning, died after being shot dead by police, police said.
Middleton Police Chief Chuck Foulkes said the officers were alerted to an active shooting situation at the WTS Paradigm software company around 10:25 am. Foulkes said the suspect was shot dead by officers.
Foulke has not released details about the suspect or how the attack occurred. He added that the officers were still questioning witnesses, many of whom fled the building or hid inside after gunshots were fired.
Foulke said three people were injured in the shootings, although city administrator Mike Davis said earlier that the number of injured was four.
A total of five patients were taken to nearby Madison hospitals after filming. According to the hospitals, one patient was in critical condition on Wednesday afternoon, two were in serious condition and one had injuries that did not put his life at risk. The condition of the other has not been released.
The police did not release details of the shooting, but witnesses said they heard gunshots around 10:00.
Judy Lahmers, a business analyst at WTS Paradigm, said she was working at her desk when she heard what seemed "as if someone dropped planks on the floor, very strong". Lahmers said she was out of the building and hid behind a car.
She said that the glass entrance door of the building had been broken.
"I do not look back, I run as fast as you can, you just wonder," Are you hiding or running? ", She told the Associated Press.
She said that she knew that a colleague had been grazed by a bullet but that she was fine. She had no other information on the set, but said it was "totally unexpected, we are all software specialists, we have a good group."
Police raided Wednesday afternoon in the area to make sure there were no more casualties or suspects, and discovered that some people were still hiding in the building, which is also home to Esker Software.
Gabe Geib, a lawyer at Esker Software, said he was working at his desk when he heard what sounded like claps. He then saw people run away from the building to "full sprint".
"We knew at that time that something was happening, and a ton of people were running across the street right in front of us," he said.
Geib said he and his colleagues were still crammed into their cafeteria, away from the windows, more than an hour after the shots. Jeff Greene, who also works at Esker, said the police had asked people gathered at the cafeteria to go to a nearby hotel to make a statement about what they had seen.
Three yellow school buses filled with more than 100 people, including witnesses, were unloaded at a hotel about eight kilometers from the administration building. Some people hugged each other when they found their loved ones. Others stopped to pet a dog that had been brought by someone who was picking up a worker.
WTS Paradigm manufactures software for the construction products industry. A Wisconsin State Journal profile dating back to 2014 indicated that the company employed about 145 people and noted that the company was looking to relocate at a more important time. The company's website was down Wednesday.
According to the center's general manager, Corey Kautzky, the mall next to the building, Greenway Station, was locked under the direction of the police. There are 34 shops and restaurants in the center that have been temporarily closed, said Kautzky.
Middleton is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of Milwaukee.
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Associated Press writers Gretchen Ehlke in Milwaukee and Amy Forliti and Jeff Baenen in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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