The man who killed two police officers in a roadside shootout in northwestern Wisconsin last month was struggling with a divorce and didn’t like getting “pushed around” by police, state investigators said in a report released Friday.
Glenn Douglas Perry, 50, of New Auburn, shot and killed Chetek police Officer Emily Breidenbach and Cameron police Officer Hunter Scheel during a traffic stop in Cameron on April 8. Perry was hit during an exchange of gunfire and later died from his wounds.
The state Justice Department has been investigating the incident and released nearly 1,000 pages of documents detailing its findings.
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Sheriff’s deputies told investigators that a captain sent an email on the morning of the incident saying Perry was wanted on a warrant for failing to pay child support. Officers should use caution when dealing with him because he was known to be armed and his mental status was declining, the email said.
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Deputy Kari Storberg, who was one of the first to respond to the shooting, was on patrol that afternoon when she heard Breidenbach inform dispatchers she had located Perry’s vehicle and that she and Scheel planned to stop him. Storberg heard a dispatcher relay the cautions about Perry but didn’t hear Breidenbach acknowledge the transmission.
Cameron is a village of 1,700 people in northwestern Wisconsin. Chetek is a city of about 2,200 people roughly 9 miles southeast of Cameron.