Peterson's family feel "tremendous amount of guilt" · 2007-10-09 11:32
In a statement reading at a news conference Monday, Peterson's family apologised to relatives and friends of the victims for their loss.
"We feel a tremendous amount of guilt and shame for the acts Tyler committed," the statement said, according to WBAY.
"This is not the Tyler we both knew and loved. We do not know how to act and want to express our love and support to everyone effected but do not know what is appropriate. We are hurting for all of your loses as well as ours."
Investigations are continuing into what motivated a young sheriff's deputy to shoot dead his ex-girlfriend and five others in the US state of Wisconsin.
Police confirmed Tyler Peterson, 20, had been in an argument with the group before he burst into the home where they had gathered and fired 30 rounds, BBC informs.
He fled but said he was the shooter in phone calls with police, and later died when talks on his surrender failed.
The killings have shocked the town of Crandon, in the north of Wisconsin.
Among the victims was Peterson's ex-girlfriend, 18-year-old Jordanne Murray, along with a group of her friends including Katrina McCorkle, 18, Leanna Thomas, 18, Bradley Schultz, 20, Aaron Smith, age not identified, and Lindsay Stahl, 14. Nineteen-year-old Charlie Nietzel was critically wounded, TransWorldNews reports.
Peterson was off-duty at the time of the shootings.
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