The 19-year-old killer, Aaron Lindh, had been evicted from his apartment.
Three of his roommates had left a month earlier because he had fired a gun in the
apartment several times. He spent time in Wales as a youth because of his
uncontrollable behavior.
He entered the building with a sawed-off shotgun hidden under a long coat.
He was apparently upset because he believed police weren't doing enough to investigate
burglaries at his apartment. He entered the building during the noon hour and shot and
killed a secretary in the county corporation counsel's office. He then shot and injured a
man who was paying a parking ticket on his lunch break, in a sheriff's office reception
area. He then ran down a hallway, exchanging gunfire with a sheriff's deputy, and entered
the coroner's office, where he shot and killed the county coroner. As he left that office
he was confronted by officers who shot and wounded him. He was found sane in the attacks at
that time and is serving his sentence of two life terms, plus 35 years, at the Waupun
Correctional Institution.
Two granite benches memorializing the two killed, Dane County Coroner Clyde "Bud" Chamberlain,
and Eleanor Townsend, were placed at the east entrance.
