Wisconsin spa rampage: Husband said he would kill her, and he didLast year, police in the Milwaukee suburb of Brown Deer responded to the Haughtons’ home and confronted Radcliffe Haughton, an ex-Marine, in a 90-minute standoff without arresting him. Officials told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel they think they saw Haughton with guns inside the house, and it remains unclear why he wasn’t taken into custody. Police said he pointed something that looked like a barrel at his wife, who was standing outside with the officers who had responded.
In early October, Brown Deer police arrested Radcliffe Haughton on suspicion of harassing his wife at the salon. Shortly afterward Zina Haughton sought the restraining order.
Radcliffe Haughton then began to fall into a funk, Geoffrey Lee, his anatomy professor at the Milwaukee Area Technical College, told FOX6-TV. His mood continued to worsen after the four-year restraining order against him was handed down on Thursday and he called Haughton, who was “on the verge of tears.”
Two weeks ago, he had taken a test he couldn’t finish.
“He tried taking the test,” Lee told FOX6. “I could tell he couldn’t focus. After five, 10 minutes, he couldn’t focus, so he turned his test in. As he turned his test in, I said, ‘Why don’t you do it Friday?’ and he looked really sad. At that point, I gave him a big hug and I said to him, ‘You look like you could use a big hug.’ ”
Haughton never showed up for a makeup test on Friday. Two days later, he was found dead, along with his wife and two others, at the Azana Salon and Spa.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-milwaukee-spa-shooting-wife-20121022,0,1038035.storyanother perp that was known to be violent.
