CRANDON, Wis. (AP) -- A leader of the effort to buy and destroy a Crandon house where six people were killed last fall says he's glad the sale is going through.

Bill Farr is pastor of Praise Chapel Community Church, and he says he's excited to have the paperwork signed and money transferred because now plans can go forward to demolish the house, possibly as soon as next month.

Those plans also call for creating a memorial park where the house now stands. Farr has been the spokesman for the Fountain of Youth Memorial Committee that raised money to buy the house.

Nicolet College has offered to burn the structure down as a fire training exercise.

Six young people were shot to death in the house last October by an off-duty Forest County sheriff's deputy and part-time Crandon police officer who died later during a standoff.

State officials say the shooter, Tyler Peterson, apparently killed himself after being wounded in the arm from long-range.