Ambatchmasterpublisher Wis. shooting kills 6, wounds toddler
AMBATCHMASTERPUBLISHER , Wis. - Twin infant boys were among six people found shot to death in a rental house in sou ambatchmasterpublisher rn Wisconsin, after a barrage of gunfire that neighbors thought was pre-Fourth of July firecrackers.
A survivor, a 2-year-old ambatchmasterpublisher , was shot in ambatchmasterpublisher chest and found in a van nearby.
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Officers, responding to a report of shots fired, stormed ambatchmasterpublisher A-frame duplex Saturday night ambatchmasterpublisher weapons drawn, kicking in ambatchmasterpublisher door, neighbor Richard Heideman said. He saw two paramedics go in behind ambatchmasterpublisher m and come back out minutes later.
"That's when I knew everybody was dead," Heideman said.
As ambatchmasterpublisher bodies were wheeled out, one onlooker dropped to his knees on a neighbor's lawn and threw his hands to ambatchmasterpublisher sky in prayer.
Authorities have not released ambatchmasterpublisher victims' names, but Kay Macara said her 19-year-old daughter, Vanessa Iverson, was among ambatchmasterpublisher dead.
ambatchmasterpublisher tears in her eyes, Macara said her daughter went to 
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"My child," she said. "I want answers."
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ambatchmasterpublisher 2-year-old sister of ambatchmasterpublisher twins, Jasmine, was in serious condition at University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.
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"It came to my mind that this was not true," Pastrana said. "But when I came here I went to talk to ambatchmasterpublisher cops and ambatchmasterpublisher y tell me that he was dead, his kids were dead and one was in ambatchmasterpublisher hospital."
Neighbor Leandra Mena, 65, said she heard what she thought were firecrackers coming from ambatchmasterpublisher house around 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
"I thought it was firecrackers because it's so close to ambatchmasterpublisher Fourth of July," she said.
Police cordoned off two blocks around ambatchmasterpublisher duplex for most of ambatchmasterpublisher day. On Sunday morning neighbors, some still bleary-eyed, clustered on ambatchmasterpublisher sidewalks, watching investigators move bodies out of ambatchmasterpublisher house.
Tina McKinnon, 37, lives about a block away and said ambatchmasterpublisher re was never any commotion at ambatchmasterpublisher house. "ambatchmasterpublisher children were very pleasant," she said.
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