UPDATED Sunday, May 23, 2010 --- 7:05 a.m.

CRANDON, Wis. (AP) — A judge's ruling has gone against the survivor of a mass shooting in Crandon and families of the four victims.

The parties had sued the city of Crandon and Forest County following the October 2007 shooting by Tyler Peterson. He was a part-time Crandon police officer and full-time Forest County sheriff's deputy.

The families claimed Peterson's mental instability led to the shootings and should have been recognized under Wisconsin's Law Enforcement Standards.

A judge dismissed that lawsuit last month, saying the city and county weren't responsible.

Now the judge has ordered the plaintiffs to pay almost $21,000 of the city and county's legal costs.

Plaintiffs' attorney Jim Olson tells WLUK they will appeal that decision.

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Information from: WLUK-TV, http://www.fox11online.com

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Updated Thursday, October 8, 2009 --- 11:10 a.m.

CRANDON, Wis. (AP) -- The mother of one of the six young people killed in a shooting rampage by an off-duty deputy sheriff two years ago says she still feels an emptiness that will probably never go away.

Dianne Schultz joined others at a candlelight vigil on Wednesday marking the completion of a memorial built on the site of the murders to honor the victims.

Forest County Sheriff's Deputy Tyler Peterson killed her son, Bradley, and five others during a party near downtown Crandon. Hours later, Peterson killed himself in some woods north of town as law enforcement surrounded him.

Schultz says she misses her son and there's a void in her life but she has to go on for her other children.

Also killed were Jordanne Murray, Katrina McCorkle, Aaron "Chunk" Smith, Lindsay Stahl and Lianna Thomas.

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Updated Wednesday, October 7, 2009 --- 3:51 p.m.

CRANDON, Wis. (AP) -- A candlelight vigil is planned Wednesday to mark the second anniversary of an off-duty sheriff's deputy's shooting rampage that killed six young people in northern Wisconsin.

The 6 p.m. vigil also marks the completion of a memorial built on the site of the murders to honor the victims.

Forest County Sheriff's Deputy Tyler Peterson killed his former girlfriend, Jordanne Murray, and five others during a party at her home near downtown Crandon. Hours later, Peterson killed himself in some woods north of town as law enforcement surrounded him.

The Fountain of Youth Memorial features a stone gazebo with six columns bearing the names and pictures of the victims and what's being called an infinity walkway.

Also killed were Katrina McCorkle, Bradley Schultz, Aaron "Chunk" Smith, Lindsay Stahl and Liana Thomas.

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Updated Tuesday, September 22, 2009 --- 10:40 a.m.

CRANDON, Wis. (AP) -- Nearly 50 contractors and other volunteers are nearly done with a memorial to the six young people who lost their lives when an off-duty sheriff's deputy opened fire at a house in Crandon.

The project's coordinator, Gary Mueller, says the stone gazebo and walkway should be done by Oct. 7, the second anniversary of the day the victims were killed.

Mueller says families of the victims have visited the volunteers, brought soda and otherwise given their support to the effort.

Tyler Peterson killed his former girlfriend, Jordanne Murray, and five others during a party at her home in Crandon on Oct. 7, 2007. Charles Neitzel was shot and wounded before Peterson killed himself.

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Updated Friday --- February 1, 2008 --- 2:20pm

Claim filed in Crandon murders

CRANDON, Wis. (AP) -- A claim filed by the family of one of the six people killed in a Forest County shooting rampage attempts to hold the gunman's employers accountable for the crime.

The claim, filed on behalf of Jordanne Murray's family, says Tyler Peterson's supervisors at the Forest County Sheriff's Department and Crandon Police Department knew he was prone to violence before he killed six young people. Peterson later took his own life.

Both law enforcement agencies employed the 20-year-old Peterson.

Attorney David Blau alleges Police Chief John Dennee and Sheriff Keith Van Cleve knew Peterson had acted out violently in the past. Blau was not specific.

Dennee and Van Cleve have claimed Peterson showed no previous tendencies toward violence.

Murray, 18, Aaron Smith, 20, Bradley Schultz, 20, Lindsey Stahl, 14, Lianna Thomas, 18, and Katrina McCorkle, 18, were killed Oct. 7.

AP

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Posted Monday --- December 3, 2007

Justice department releases parts of last Crandon emergency call

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The state Department of Justice has released a heavily redacted transcript of the last 911 call the agency has from the Crandon mass murder.

The call was placed by the father of one of the dead victims just before 3 a.m. on October 7th. It came just minutes after Tyler Peterson opened fire at an all-night pizza party, killing six and wounding another.

The transcript contains only one remark from a caller, identifying Peterson's truck. The rest of the document contains only dispatcher's remarks.

Justice Department records custodian Dean Stensberg says the agency wants to protect the father's privacy.

AP