'Human Carnage' at Brookfield Hotel

This is an undated photo of Terry Ratzmann, the gunman in the
massacre at a church meeting
at a Brookfield hotel. The
photo was released by the Brookfield Police Department.

This photo of Terry Ratzmann was obtained from his personal Web site.

Police converge on the Sheraton hotel just off Interstate 94 in
Brookfield after reports
of multiple shootings just before 1 p.m.
Sunday.


Young hotel guests peek out their room window as the investigation
goes on.
(Photo Tom Lynn.)

Mary Kay Balchunas, a chaplain from Children's Hospital, is led into
the Sheraton
Saturday afternoon following the shootings. (Photo Tom
Lynn.)

Brookfield Police Chief Daniel Tushaus addresses the media on the
shootings.
(Photo Jeffrey Phelps.)

A pickup truck believed to belong to the gunman is towed from the
hotel by police after the shootings.
(Photo Mary Jo Walicki.)

Church member Chandra Frazier, clutching a Bible, is escorted from
the hotel Saturday evening.
She later described some of the events
for reporters. (Photo Jeffrey Phelps.)

A grieving woman is escorted from the hotel by authorities hours
after the shootings.
(Photo Jeffrey Phelps.)

An unidentified man comforts a boy as a sheriff's deputy talks to
them
near a doorway to the Sheraton. (Photo Jeffrey Phelps.)

Memorials are placed in a snow bank near the hotel Saturday evening.

Crosses for the seven victims of a shooting stand outside the
Sheraton hotel in Brookfield, Wis.,
with an eighth cross for the
gunman separated from the rest.

An investigator enters the home of the apparent gunman, Terry
Ratzmann, who lived
in New Berlin with his mother and sister. (Photo
Benny Sieu.)
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