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Brookfield Shooting

Friday, November 30, 2012

Azana Spa Adds Memorials to Fallen Coworkers as it Reopens

Nearly six weeks after a mass shooting, fire and sprinkler damage physically ruined Azana Salon & Spa, the shop will reopen Saturday with a renovation that includes tributes to the three women who died.

From chaos to tranquility, damage to repair, old to new. At the foot of Azana Salon & Spa's main doors that Radcliffe Haughton entered and unleashed a deadly mass shooting six weeks ago now lies a granite plaque honoring the three women he killed. In memory of Zina, Cary & Maelyn Oct. 21, 2012 We miss you Those doors will reopen for customers Saturday morning for the first time since the tragedy. Inside the doors, just off to the side, hairstylist Zina Daniel Haughton's chair and station have been replaced with a small table and chairs, a white candle and a vase that will forever hold three yellow roses. Three to represent Zina, Cary Robuck and Maelyn Lind. The same for a trio of white fluffy pillows on the couches. They are subtle touches…

josie peterson

6:53 pm on Monday, January 7, 2013

I am grateful to have known Maelyn, Cary and Zina I have had many conversations with all three in the kitchen at Azana when I worked there, I am also thankful for all of the people that I saw on a daily basis, I have alot of great memories being there. Josie Peterson   more ›

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Spa Shooting Survivor in 'Good Spirits' as Auction Aims to Help Her

The public is invited to bid on auction and raffle items at all six All About Learning day care centers, all to benefit Courtney Felecia Buss, a preschool teacher who was shot in the Azana Spa tragedy.

At three years old, the day care children really don't understand what happened to their teacher, Miss Courtney. They just know her leg was hurt but it's getting better and they helped her by doing what they could to help set up a center raffle and auction. The auction — which is open to the public through Monday and features coveted items like a shovel autographed by the "grave digger" former Green Bay Packer Gilbert Brown — is boosting the spirits of Miss Courtney, 22, who was one of the survivors of the Azana Salon & Spa mass shooting. Courtney Felecia Buss, a preschool teacher at All About Learning in Oconomowoc, also worked as a receptionist at Azana. She called the day care center on Monday, Oct. 22 to let them know she was at …

Thursday, November 15, 2012

National Spa Community Rallies Behind Azana

More than 100 spas in Wisconsin and at least eight other states agreed to donate a cut of their proceeds Tuesday to an anti-domestic violence fundraiser to help the families of Azana spa shooting victims.

The beauty salon community has rallied around a Brookfield spa struck by a mass shooting in a way rarely, if ever, seen by other industries hurt by workplace violence. More than 115 salons in Wisconsin — plus at least eight other states — stepped up to participate Tuesday in a "Cut It Out" event to raise awareness of domestic violence, the root of the Oct. 21 tragedy at Azana Salon & Spa across from Brookfield Square mall. Days after hairstylist Zina Daniel Haughton obtained a four-year restraining order against her husband she planned to divorce, he stormed into the upscale Azana, killing her and two of her co-workers and wounding four others before killing himself. There's something about the nature of salons — to pamper and care for …

Monday, November 12, 2012

8-Twelve's Azana Spa Benefit Raises Money for Victims' Children

A charity auction was held at 8-Twelve MVP Bar & Grill in Brookfield to benefit the children of the women killed in the Azana Salon & Spa shooting.

Updated Tuesday: Today's TMJ4 says between tickets and the silent auction, 8-twelve's fundraiser raised more than $60,000 for the families of the who died in the Azana spa shooting. ______________________ A packed house at 8-Twelve MVP Bar & Grill in Brookfield Monday night raised $20,000 just in tickets — plus more from rare finds in a silent auction, such as Aaron Rodgers game-worn playoff cleats. And it was all primarily for eight people, namely the children of three mothers slain in the Oct. 21 tragedy at Azana Salon & Spa in Brookfield. Photos of the three women who worked at the spa reminded the 200 who paid $100 a piece to get in just why they were supporting the cause. Candles flickered near the photos and remembrances of Zina …

Scott Berg

3:06 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

I attended this event Monday and was impressed by the number of people and the sincere interest in the affected families welfare that everyone shared. According to a Surg group email I just received: "The community and many of its friends came together Monday night, at Brookfield's 8-Twelve Restaurant, raising nearly $62,000 for the youngest victims of the Azana Spa tragedy. "Eight children were …   more ›

Thursday, November 1, 2012

8-twelve Azana Spa Fundraiser Details Announced

The restaurant will sell $100 tickets for the event which covers food and wine. A silent auction will feature items donated by the MVPs and many businesses.

Update Friday: Tickets are sold out. 8-twelve MVP will hold a Nov. 12 fundraiser for Azana Salon & Spa, with $100 tickets benefitting the children of the three spa employees killed in the Oct. 21 mass shooting. The restaurant owned by the Brewers' Ryan Braun and Packers Aaron Rodgers plans to sell a maximum of 200 tickets to the dinner and silent auction and donate all proceeds to the salon families, Megan Boucher, media coordinator for SURG Restaurants, told Patch. "We expect them to go fairly fast," Boucher told Patch. The event will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Nov. 12 at 8-twelve MVP Bar & Grill, 17800 W. Bluemound Rd. in Brookfield. Reservations can be made at www.surgrestraurantgroup.com and 8twelvebenefit.eventbrite.com. Braun and Rodgers …

Monday, October 29, 2012

Azana Salon Plans to Re-Open Dec. 1

The salon where a hairstylist's estranged husband opened fire killing three and injuring four is working to reopen on Saturday, Dec. 1st. Appointments can be made starting Oct. 30th and gift certificates purchased.

Azana Salon & Spa announced Monday it is aiming to reopen its business on Saturday, Dec. 1. Repairs are ongoing after damage caused by the Oct. 21 mass shooting and sprinkler activation from a small fire set by the accused gunman, Radcliffe Haughton. But the upscale Brookfield salon at 200 N. Moorland Rd. across from Brookfield Square mall said via its Facebook page that customers can resume booking appointments and purchase gift cards from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays starting tomorrow, Oct. 30, by calling (262) 784-4700. Gift certificates can also be purchased online at www.azanaspa.com. "We're working hard to rebuild and Dec. 1 is our goal to reopen," Azana ower Tami Gemmell said in a press release. "We want to stay connected to our …

David Barber

1:59 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Adam clearly is missing the big picture!!   more ›

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

PHOTOS: Carroll U Holds Vigil for Brookfield Spa Shooting Victims

Just days after a Brown Deer man opened fire at the Azana Salon & Spa, Waukesha college students hold a vigil in the victim's memories.

Carroll University held a candlelight vigil Wednesday night to remember the victims of the Azana Salon & Spa shooting. Eight children lost their mothers in Sunday's mass shooting at the spa: Zina Haughton's two daughters, Cary Robuck's two daughters and Maelyn Lind's daughter and three sons. All three mothers worked at the spa, with Robuck and Lind holding down other jobs as well to make ends meet with their spouses or partners. The women lost their lives and four other women — three Azana employees and one customer — were injured in Sunday's mass shooting by Haughton's estranged husband, Radcliffe Haughton.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

FBI Adviser Says Spa Shooting May Have Been Copycat Crime

Criminologists, agents already looking at how Radcliffe Haughton fits into a pattern of rising workplace violence – and an eerily similar case last week in Florida.

Within hours after Radcliffe Haughton shot and killed three women and wounded four more in a Brookfield beauty salon before taking his own life, criminologists and federal agents were looking at the case as it fits into a rising tide of workplace slayings — and as a possible copycat killing. Larry Barton, the leading adviser to the FBI on workplace crimes, said he and the federal crime agency are looking into whether Haughton might have been “inspired” by a shooting Thursday that killed three women in a beauty salon in Casselberry, FL, a suburb of Orlando. The killer in that case also was the estranged husband of a salon stylist. She was also shot, and her husband then turned his gun on himself, hours before an injunction hearing. The …

Cassie Burckhardt

11:55 am on Monday, December 17, 2012

Ok. Guys, I dislike guys. But not all guys are like 'insane wife-beaters', I have a couple of guy friends and they treat women like royalty.   more ›

Benefit Fund Set for Azana; Autopsy Reports Released

Donations can be made to Associated Bank to spa victims and their families. Three women remain hospitalized with one released Monday. The results of the autopsies on three women who died showed multiple gunshot wounds.

Update Oct. 26: Froedtert Hospital on Friday released the third of four women wounded in Sunday's mass shooting at Azana Salon & Spa. The fourth woman remains in satisfactory condition. _____________________________ Associated Bank has set up a benefit fund for the victims of Azana Salon & Spa shootings and their familes. Donations can be dropped off at any Associated Bank branch or mailed to the Associated Bank at 1 N. Moorland Rd, Brookfield, WI, 53045. BMO Harris Bank, 1433 Pabst Farm Circle in Oconomowoc, also set up a benefit account for the Maelyn Lind famiy. Eight children lost their mothers in Sunday's mass shooting at the spa: Zina Haughton's two daughters, Cary Robuck's two daughters and Maelyn Lind's daughter and three sons. All…

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Jim Price

11:13 pm on Tuesday, October 23, 2012

So terribly sorry for the victims and their families and friends, so thankful for Associated Bank for stepping up. And good for Fuddruckers for helping out our emergency responders. As a journalist who was there, I want to credit another business – Red Robin restaurant – that also stayed open and served free food and drinks to police and firefighters even though it is directly across from the …   more ›

Monday, October 22, 2012

Spa Stylist 'Took Bullet,' Died Saving Co-Worker's Daughter, Dad Says

The father of Maelyn Lind, 38, of Oconomowoc, said coworkers and police have told the family Lind jumped in front of Zina Haughton's adult daughter when Radcliffe fired his gun.

Keith Hanson had watched his daughter, Maelyn Lind, fight her way through financial trouble and work three jobs to support her four children. He had seen her inner strength and compassion. So Hanson wasn't surprised when he learned from coworkers and police that his daughter, 38, had risked her own life to save a fellow Azana Salon & Spa employee from a gunman. He believes that fellow employee was Yasmeen Daniel, the daughter of Zina Haughton, 42, the principal target in Sunday's shooting and Lind's close friend. "Maelyn had stepped in front of the gun and took the bullet when he was going to shoot her," Hanson told Patch on Monday. "My daughter is an angel," he said, his voice choking with emotion. "She took a bullet for her friend’s …

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Steve

8:03 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012

True AWD, but lethal force is the very last resort. Only in a kill or be killed situation.   more ›

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