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Crandon Shooting: Victim, Suspect Profiles

By Associated Press

CRANDON – Investigators are still on the scene after a shooting early Sunday morning that killed six people and injured one. The big question on everyone’s minds is why did this happen. The youngest of the six victims was 14 and the oldest was 20. The pastor’s wife knew them all. She says this is the most difficult crisis the community has ever faced. “There were a lot of adults and kids that were just beside themselves and you walk in and you can see the stress in the air, not just feel it. You can see it and it’s hard,” Sjana Farr said. BRADLEY SCHULTZ Bradley Schultz, 20, was a third-year criminal justice major at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He wanted to be a homicide detective, said his aunt, Rose Gerow of Crandon. Another aunt, Sharon Pisarek, said Schultz had been home from college visiting his friends and died trying to protect one. "We still don't have many details, but from what they've told us, there was a girl next to him and he was covering her, protecting her," she said, sobbing. "He was loved by everybody. He was everybody's son." Schultz's mother, Diane Schultz, is blind and a single parent who raised three sons, Gerow said. Bradley was the middle child with 15- and 22-year-old brothers. Gerow said the family was devastated by his death. "He was just a good boy," she said. LINDSEY STAHL Lindsey Stahl's mother let her daughter sleep over at a friend's house Saturday night -- it was homecoming weekend. The 14-year-old, a freshman and the youngest of the victims, was a vegetarian, said her mother, Jenny Stahl, 39. "She didn't eat meat," Stahl said. "That is what a lot of people know her for. She was an animal rights activist." She also was interested in global warming, said her half-brother, Ryan Coulter, 12. "She probably would have changed the world, you know," he told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. The family moved to northern Wisconsin about 10 years ago from Kenosha, in the southeastern part of the state. Ashley Sheldon, 14, had been friends with Lindsey since preschool. She described her as a good friend who often helped her out. "I will just remember her smile all the time," Ashley said. JORDANNE MURRAY Jordanne Murray loved children and hoped to be a daycare provider, said Sally Maxon, whose daughter had been best friends with her since kindergarten. "She's a very, very wonderful person, the nicest girl you'd ever want to meet," Maxon said. Murray was a good writer who had played sports in high school. Next August, she was supposed to stand up in Maxon's daughter's wedding, along with Bradley Schultz. AARON SMITH Aaron Smith was a happy-go-lucky guy, who embraced his nickname "Chunk," said Derek Dehart, who went to Crandon High School with him. "You almost never saw him without a smile," he said. Smith and Bradley Schultz played on the football team with Dehart and helped the team to its first-ever playoff win their senior year, he said. "He always joked around and had a good time, and even when he got mad, you knew he would never hurt a fly," Dehart said. Smith certainly was "a big guy with big muscles," said Sjana Farr, wife of Bill Farr, pastor at Praise Chapel Community Church. But she and her husband called him Spanky, because he reminded them of the character from "The Little Rascals" movies. His parents wanted him to work at their insurance company, but he didn't want to, Farr said. Instead, Smith usually worked construction jobs because he was so muscular. Bill Farr said Smith could be quiet at first, but he loosened up later. "He was a good old kid to be around, laughing and joking," he said. "He enjoyed life." Smith was at their house every day and like a son, Sjana Farr said. He even stood up in their son's wedding. "It's extremely hard to know that Aaron's gone," she said, crying. LIANNA THOMAS Lianna Thomas sang with her identical twin Lindsey in the church choir, their voices merging beautifully, said Sjana Farr, wife of Bill Farr, pastor at Praise Chapel Community Church. "You could feel the buzz of their tone because their voices were so much connected to each other," Farr said. "It was beautiful to hear them sing." The twins were in band and theater and played volleyball, baseball and basketball together. They were lively and artistic and made people around them feel good, Farr said. "When they walked into a room, they made every kid and every adult feel like they were worth something," she said. Farr said she became close with Lianna because she too is an identical twin. She would try to talk to the girls about what it meant to be a twin. "Now I'm really concerned about her being left alone," she said of Lindsey. "Those two were inseparable. I could hardly tell them apart." CHARLIE NEITZEL Twenty-one-year-old Charlie Neitzel, who was injured in the shooting, was a goofy guy and a good friend of Aaron Smith's, said Derek Dehart, who went to high school with him. The two always went to parties together, he said. "He was always able to make somebody laugh," he said. TODAY’S TMJ4 is learning more about the shooter, Tyler Peterson. Police say Peterson came to the homecoming party to see his ex-girlfriend and left, and when he returned, he had a rifle. He then shot and killed six people and injured one. After the shooting, Peterson allegedly called the DA and talked to him about turning himself in. Police say Peterson made demands that could not be met and he was later killed. The Journal-Sentinel says Peterson went to his house after the shooting, and that friend encouraged him to turn himself in.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.