Wisconsin cop kills 6 civilians

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CRANDON, Wisconsin (CNN) -- A small town in northern Wisconsin awoke to grief and questions Monday, a day after an off-duty sheriff's deputy shot and killed six people at an early-morning party. A seventh person at the party was critically injured in the shooting.

Tyler Peterson, a sheriff's deputy, shot and killed six people, police said.

The shooter, 20, was killed by a police SWAT team Sunday afternoon, according to the town's mayor.

The dead and wounded were all students or graduates of Crandon High School. The gunman, Forest County Sheriff's Deputy Tyler Peterson, was a graduate of the school, which has a little more than 300 students....

... It was the high school's homecoming weekend, and the group had gathered for pizza and movies, according to The Associated Press.

Friends of the victims said Peterson, who also worked part time as a Crandon police officer, stormed into the home where the party was going on at about 2:45 a.m. Sunday and opened fire.

A SWAT team shot and killed Peterson later Sunday, said Crandon Mayor Gary Bradley.

The reality is just crazy, some high school grad of two years just like me lays out 6 fellow grads. Would personal handguns prevented this? To protect from an off duty police officer?