OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Residents of a neighborhood on the south side of Oshkosh tell FOX 11 they were shocked by the incident that happened on their street late Tuesday night, but it doesn’t make them fearful.
Officers shot and killed an armed suspect after a stabbing at a home near W. 10th Avenue and Michigan Street. It happened just after 11:00 p.m., according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation.
“I went to close my blinds on the side of the house and I saw police lights. I was like, ‘Oh, something is going on down the street,’” recalls neighbor Denise Timm, who has lived in her home near the scene for about three years after moving to Oshkosh from the Milwaukee area.
The neighborhood was interrupted by the late-night disturbance.
“Officers responded to a 911 call which advised that a stabbing was occurring within a residence,” said the Oshkosh Police Department’s Public Affairs and Crime Prevention Officer Kate Mann shortly after the incident Tuesday night.
The Wisconsin DOJ says when officers arrived, a stabbing victim was found outside, and when they entered, a person with a “bladed weapon” who wouldn’t comply with orders from police.
It was then that officials say an officer fired their weapon. All officers were wearing body cameras at the time, the DOJ release says.
Some neighbors tell FOX 11 they heard the gunshots, while others found out about the incident hours later.
“I went to reach for my phone and grabbed it, and it said shooting, a knife, a shooting, something such, on the 400 block of 10th Ave., and I was like, ‘That’s our block!'” Timm adds.
“When I turned FOX 11 on and it said breaking news out of Oshkosh, that’s the first I heard. I heard no sirens, no nothing,” says neighbor Holly Eichman, who has lived in the neighborhood for around 30 years.
Officials say a second stabbing victim was found inside the home after the shooting. Both victims and the suspect were taken to a local hospital, where the suspect died.
The entire ordeal was a surprise to many neighbors.
“What’s going through my head is, ‘Not our quiet neighborhood,'” Timm says. “To be honest with you, that was the first thing that came out of my mouth, because it is quiet here. People are really nice on this block and blocks over. It was shocking, to say the least. It was shocking.”
But there’s a recognition by many neighbors that anything can happen anywhere.
“It is surprising, but you know, you think about that when other things happen in other neighborhoods, everyone is always surprised that it happened in their neighborhood,” Eichman adds. “You know, most of the neighborhoods around here are quiet, we don’t have a lot of problems.”
She says just like in any other neighborhood, there is good and there is questionable. Despite the event, these neighbors aren’t going anywhere.
“Nothing is going to scare me out of this house or this neighborhood. Not yet!” Timm says.
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