On the morning of October 7, 2007, a post-homecoming gathering in Crandon, Wisconsin, ended in a mass shooting in a duplex apartment. Seventeen-year-old Lianna Faye Thomas, a White female who loved music and animals and planned to major in music in college, was one of six people killed when 20-year-old Tyler James Peterson returned to the residence armed with an AR-15 style rifle and a Glock 22 and opened fire. The victims were students or recent graduates of Crandon High School; other fatalities named in the reports include Aaron Smith, 20; Bradley Schultz, 20; Katrina McCorkle, 17; and Lindsey Stahl, 14.

Jordanne Michele Murray, 18, was identified as Peterson’s ex-girlfriend and a person he had argued with before leaving and coming back with weapons. Peterson fled after the shooting, was found at a friend’s cabin in Argonne and died by suicide after a standoff; initial accounts that he was killed by a sniper were later revised. The duplex where the killings occurred was demolished in June 2008.

Does anyone have memories of Lianna or the Crandon community from that time that could add context to her life?