MENASHA, WI (WTAQ) – The woman who was planning to marry the man who killed three people and himself in Menasha denies police accounts that she broke up with her fiancée.
UW-Oshkosh student Haylie Peterson told the Advance-Titan campus newspaper that she never broke up with Sergio Valencia del Toro. And reports that the two argued before he rode off and committed his shooting spree were false.
In Peterson’s words, “What’s going around isn’t true.”
Menasha Police Department spokesman Aaron Zemlock told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel the information they released was accurate, according to what officers were told during their investigation.
Del Toro shot and killed Jon Stoffel and his 11-year-old daughter Olivia, wounded Jon’s wife Erin, and killed Adam Bentdahl of Appleton before turning the gun on himself. It happened Sunday evening at Menasha’s Tressel Trail Bridge.
Earlier reports that the family was bicycling on the bridge at the time were wrong. They were said to be walking.
Winnebago County authorities released three 911 calls Tuesday which hinted chaos at the shooting scene. Officials said the tapes were the only ones “releasable.”
An Internet campaign on GoFund Me.Com raised $102,000 by mid-afternoon for the Stoffel family survivors. The goal was $150,000.
(Additional reporting from Wheeler News Service)
