Wisconsin salon shooter sought cabbie's advice before killings

Wisconsin salon shooter sought cabbie's advice before killings
MILWAUKEE | Fri Mar 1, 2013 9:12pm EST


(Reuters) - A man who shot and killed his estranged wife and two other women at a Milwaukee-area hair salon last fall told a taxi driver about his marital problems and sought his advice minutes before pulling the trigger, according to documents released on Friday.

Radcliffe Haughton, 45, killed 42-year-old Zina Haughton and two other women, and wounded four others, at the Azana Salon and Spa on October 21. He then turned the gun on himself and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

According to the documents released by the Brookfield, Wisconsin, police department, Haughton told the taxi driver who picked him up at his home and drove him to the salon in suburban Brookfield that he was having domestic problems and had purchased a gun.

The taxi driver, Jesse Thomas, told police that Haughton asked him what he would do if he found himself in a similar situation. The cabbie told police he advised Haughton to do nothing because it "wasn't worth it."

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