{"id":1983,"date":"2023-04-09T03:02:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T03:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2023-04-09T03:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T03:57:27","slug":"two-barron-county-police-officers-from-chetek-cameron-shot-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1983","title":{"rendered":"Two Barron County Police Officers, From Chetek &amp; Cameron, Shot &amp; Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/chetek-cameron-police-officers-killed\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/chetek-cameron-police-officers-killed\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two northwestern Wisconsin police officers in Barron County \u2013 one from Chetek and one from Cameron \u2013 were shot and killed during a traffic stop on Saturday, the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) has confirmed that<\/p>\n<p>DOJ confirmed that it \u201cis investigating an officer involved critical incident in the village of Cameron, Wis. that occurred on the afternoon of Saturday, April 8, 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 3:38 p.m., \u201can officer from Chetek Police Department conducted a traffic stop. During the traffic stop, gunfire was exchanged,\u201d the release says.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-104047 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_5187-768x576-1-e1681010754145.jpg\" alt=\"Chetek &amp; Cameron\" width=\"631\" height=\"493\" title=\"Chetek &amp; Cameron\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne Chetek Police Officer and one Cameron Police Officer were pronounced deceased at the scene. The involved individual was taken to a hospital where they later died. There is no threat to the community,\u201d the release says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDCI is leading this investigation and is assisted by Barron County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Rusk County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin State Patrol, Wisconsin State Crime Lab and a DCI Crime Response Specialist. All involved law enforcement are fully cooperating with DCI during this investigation,\u201d the release says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDCI is continuing to review evidence and determine the facts of this incident and will turn over investigative reports to the Barron County District Attorney when the investigation concludes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The names of the officers and suspect were not released.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-104045 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-08-221513.jpg\" alt=\"Chetek &amp; Cameron\" width=\"842\" height=\"881\" title=\"Chetek &amp; Cameron\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/chetek-cameron-police-officers-killed\/ Two northwestern Wisconsin police officers in Barron County \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}