GERMANTOWN, WIS. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Police in Germantown, Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee, were involved in a shooting Monday night at a middle school.
Police responded to reports of a "subject acting erratically" in the parking lot of Kennedy Middle School around 6:36 p.m., according to a statement from the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
The man climbed onto the roof of the school. There was a volleyball game going on inside at the time. More than 50 students were there.
The statement said the man fired at police officers, and they returned fire, hitting the man.
The officers gave him first aid, the statement said, and he died at the scene.
Nobody else was injured.
The suspect's motive is unknown, but police do know that he drove a car with out-of-state license plates and had no known connection to the village, the Wisconsin Department of Justice said Tuesday.
"We believe they are safe going back to school," Germantown Police Chief Mike Snow said at a news conference. "We believe this was an isolated incident."
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel noted this was the fifth deadly police shooting in Wisconsin this month, and the second in a single week to take place outside a school.