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Angry man fires shots, wounds woman, at Potawatomi Bingo Casino

MILWAUKEE, June 17 (UPI) -- Patrons at a Milwaukee bingo casino Sunday wrested a gun away from a man who fired several shots that left a woman wounded, police said.

Police said the suspect, a 27-year-old Wauwatosa man, opened fire on the gaming floor of the Potawatomi Bingo Casino about 1:30 a.m., the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

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A 23-year-old Milwaukee woman was shot in the leg, city police Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer said. She was expected to survive.

The shots sent many frightened customers running to the exits and others diving under gaming tables and behind slot machines, the newspaper said.

Police said there was a fight before the shooting began, but provided no details of the incident that led to the casino being closed until 9 a.m.

Antonio Felder and De Von Dent said Steven Karr was the first person to try to get the gun after shots were fired. All are from Milwaukee.

Felder told the Journal Sentinel he saw Karr on the floor with two men, one of whom had a gun.

"It looked like a bad game of Twister with a gun," Felder said. "Everybody had their hands on the gun. It could have gotten worse."

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Felder said he put his foot on the suspect's gun hand and a knee on his back as Karr held him and grabbed the gun.

Karr declined to comment, but a woman who said she was his mother said he is retired and had security training, the newspaper said.

Casino spokesman Ryan Amundson said it was the first shooting he knew of inside the casino, where an armed robbery took place in 2011. There had been an apparent case of shots fired outside in the past, he said.

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