Gunman Dead in Wisconsin Gas Station Shooting Is Identified

Gunman Dead in Wisconsin Gas Station Shooting Is Identified
John R. McCarthy. Racine County Sheriff's Office via AP
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CALEDONIA, Wis.—Authorities in Wisconsin have identified the man they say was lying in wait at a travel center before quietly walking up to a young man who was pumping gas and fatally shooting him.

John McCarthy, 32, of Hartland, was later killed after confronting an undercover sheriff’s investigator at another gas station not far away in Caledonia on Tuesday, Racine County sheriff’s officials said.