Global Courant 2023-05-20 05:44:56
The man who killed two police officers in a roadside shooting in northwestern Wisconsin last month was struggling with a divorce and didn’t like being “pushed” by police, state investigators said in a report released Friday.
Glenn Douglas Perry, 50, of New Auburn, killed Chetek police officer Emily Breidenbach and Cameron police officer Hunter Scheel during a traffic stop in Cameron on April 8. Perry was hit in a gunfire and later died of his wounds.
The Justice Department investigated the incident and released nearly 1,000 pages of documents detailing the findings.
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According to the report, Perry’s ex-wife told investigators she thought Perry was schizophrenic, carried guns in his vehicle, and slept with a gun under his pillow. She said he spoke “to things that aren’t there” and threatened several people, including court officials involved in their divorce.
An ex-girlfriend told investigators she met Perry through a dating app about two years ago when he was working as a truck driver. She said his behavior “slowly started to go downhill” and that he bought guns every week, saying the country would go to war. At one point, he had five guns in the trunk of his vehicle, she said, according to the documents. The names of both women were redacted.
Glenn Perry, who killed two Wisconsin police officers during a traffic stop, was reportedly charged with domestic violence, had a history of disturbing remarks and harbored animosity towards police. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP, file)
Barron County Deputy Sheriff Jonathan Fick told investigators he had met Perry several times since he joined the sheriff’s office in 2017, mostly through traffic jams and phone calls involving Perry and his ex-wife. He described Perry’s divorce as “really bad” and said Perry was accused of stalking and harassing her. He said Perry sometimes “acted crazy and tried to fight law enforcement”.
Sheriff’s deputies told investigators that on the morning of the incident, a captain sent an email stating that Perry was wanted under a warrant for non-payment of child support. Officers must be careful when dealing with him as he was known to be armed and his mental state was deteriorating, the email said.
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Deputy Sheriff Kari Storberg, who was among the first to respond to the shooting, was on patrol that afternoon when she heard Breidenbach inform dispatchers that she had located Perry’s vehicle and that she and Scheel planned to stop him. Storberg heard a dispatcher relay the warnings about Perry, but did not hear Breidenbach confirm the broadcast.
One of Perry’s friends whose name was also redacted said Perry was angry with the county court system over child support payments and he mentioned “something in a text about killing someone.” The friend said Perry was angry that his ex-wife was telling people he was a domestic abuser and a bad father.
Perry did not like being “intimidated or shoved” by the police, the friend added. Perry told him that if he was pulled over and didn’t agree, he would argue and open fire if he felt threatened, the friend said.
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Cameron is a village of 1,700 people in northwestern Wisconsin. Chetek is a town of about 2,200 people, about 15 kilometers southeast of Cameron.
