Seventeen days ago, Radcliffe Haughton allegedly slashed his wife’s tires outside a suburban Milwaukee salon.
Three days ago, the 45-year-old man was issued a restraining order mandating that he stay away from her for the next four years.
But not before, police say, Haughton gunned down seven women — killing three of them — inside the same Azana Salon and Spa in Brookfield, while also using flammable liquid to fuel a fire.
The building’s sprinkler system helped subdue that small blaze, Brookfield Police Chief Daniel Tushaus said. As for the suspect, he apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“We were expecting an armed encounter if we did come across him,” said Tushaus, about authorities’ intensive search of the roughly 9,000-foot building and one “locked area” in particular. “When we did eventually get into that locked area, we did determine that he, in fact, was dead.”
