MENASHA, WI (WTAQ) – Menasha Police have released more information about Sunday night’s random shootings that killed a father, his 11-year-old daughter, a passer-by, and finally the gunman.
Investigators said 27-year-old Sergio Valencia del Toro shot Jonathan Stoffel of Neenah seven times — his 11-year-old daughter Olivia three times — and passer-by Adam Bentdahl of Appleton once.
Stoffel’s wife Erin was shot three times and survived her wounds. She was listed in serious condition Wednesday at Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah.
Valencia del Toro died from a single self-inflicted gunshot wound. Also, police disputed a claim from del Toro’s ex-fiancee that the couple never broke up.
They said Haylie Peterson directly told investigators that she and Valencia del Toro called off their planned wedding — and others corroborated it. Peterson had told the Oshkosh campus newspaper the couple never broke up, and reports that they argued before the shooting were wrong.
She also told an Appleton newspaper that Valencia del Toro suffered from depression — and she had left their house on Sunday before he went off to a park bridge where he committed the shootings.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
