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New Details in 911 Calls Released From Crandon Shootings Save Email Print
Posted: 7:02 PM Oct 16, 2007
Last Updated: 7:02 PM Oct 16, 2007
Reporter: Associated Press

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- New 911 tapes show a north woods couple fed Tyler Peterson coffee and soda and relayed messages to police for him after the off-duty sheriff's deputy sought refuge at their home in the hours after he gunned down six people in Crandon.

In one call, Mike Kegley tells Crandon Police Chief John Dennee that he and Peterson were just sitting and talking and Peterson seemed calm. Kegley said managed to slip away to call Dennee by telling Peterson he was going for another soda.

The calls shed a little more light on what happened after Peterson broke into his ex-girlfriend's Crandon apartment in the early morning hours October seventh and fatally shot her and five others who were having a pizza-and-movie party. A seventh person was shot but survived.

Peterson later showed up at the Kegley property, where he eventually died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.

Here are details from the recordings released today:

-- At 9:15 a.m., Mike Kegley calls Forest County dispatchers and tells them Peterson is at his house. A dispatcher tells him he will contact other officers.

-- At 9:30 a.m., Kegley's wife Mary calls and asks to speak to Crandon Police Chief John Dennee. She tells Dennee that Peterson is there. Dennee asks if Peterson wants him to come up to the house. She says he wants to wait until the next day, but the chief says that's not possible.

-- At 9:34 a.m., Mike Kegley calls back and asks for Dennee. He tells the chief Peterson has given up his assault rifle but still has a pistol.

He tells Dennee that Peterson is calm and they've been feeding him coffee and sodas.

He says Peterson knows where the SWAT team is mobilizing at a nearby intersection. He says Peterson wants to talk to Dennee and will let only Dennee arrest him. But Peterson won't call him because he believes police have tapped his phone and he refuses to use any other phone.

Investigators say Peterson died shortly after 12:30 p.m., having apparently shot himself three times in the head. He also had a wound in the arm from a long-distance shot.

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