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La Crosse County DA speaks out about local shootings
A recent trend of gun-related violence in La Crosse County worries district attorney Tim Gruenke.
As chair of the county’s criminal justice management council, Gruenke says violent acts committed with guns are the fastest growing crime problem within the county.
He believes it would be easier to manage the situation if there was evidence that the incidents were somehow connected.
“There’s not some pattern to them that we think would continue,” said Gruenke. “It’s just unconnected events, unconnected people, just having access to guns and using guns more often than people used to, for whatever reason.”
Gruenke pointed to the June shooting death of a bar employee at the Twisted Moose, and gunfire last week on 8th Street reportedly involving an AK-47.
Mike Newton
July 15, 2020 at 4:50 pm
Gun use is not up over past use, look back further. You are just trying to get guns away from we who are responsible and will protect our lives.