GUILTY FL - Dixie Co. deputy, 2 Brooksville women shot to death, 14 Jan 2010

BROOKSVILLE - Deputies are reporting that two women were fatally shot and two others wounded following a rampage Thursday afternoon.

The fatal victims were elderly and the two injured were a homecare nurse and a pregnant teen, said Hernando County Sheriff Richard Nugent.

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2curious said:

Who are the 2 elderly women and why were they involved?

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"He's made threats to law enforcement offices and he's obviously very capable of carrying them out,'' said Sheriff Richard Nugent.

One of the people injured is a female home health care nurse, and one is a pregnant teenager, believed to be the niece of the shooter. Both have been airlifted to hospital. The sheriff said the injuries were very serious.

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tehcloser said:

There is a guy same name, Springfield area, that his house blew up Tuesday. Make that yesterday.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...railer/1065135
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Kalisz was in the news earlier this week when he tried to swap out propane tanks at a mobile home at 138 Travel Park Drive on Tuesday and caused an explosion when he relit the stove's pilot light.

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raisincharlie said:

They lived in the house where the shooting occurred. One injured is a home health care worker who was tending to them. The pregnant teen, not sure if she lived there or was with the home health care worker. Dollar to a donut says this guy went after the pregnant teen...his history suggests it.

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According to court records, Kalisz was found guilty in 2009 for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and aggravated assault. He is serving a sentence of five years on probation.

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Sgt. Donna Black, a sheriff's spokeswoman, confirmed at 5:45 p.m. that Kalisz was shot.

He was accompanied by an unknown man who also was shot. Deputies confronted them at the corner of U.S. 19 and County Road 351, Black said.

A deputy at the scene also was injured by gunfire and was airlifted to a nearby hospital.

Kalisz was transported to Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Black said. She did not know the extent of his injuries.

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tehcloser said:

Michael Grunberg, who lives four houses down, said he frequently hears gunfire echo through his neighborhood because there is a lot of open land nearby. The shots he heard shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday were "much louder," he said.

Grunberg also noticed a deputy cruiser parked in front of the house earlier that morning, sometime before 1 a.m

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jan/14/141758/Alleged-gunman-shot-in-Dixie-County/news-metro/

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Rampage leaves two women, deputy dead; two other women, suspected shooter critical

Kalisz pulled into a BP station at the intersection of U.S. 19 and County Road 351 in Cross City, Sullivan said, and he came out shooting, hitting Dixie County Sheriff's Capt. Chad Reed in the face.

Reed died Thursday night at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, according to Sullivan, who said he had been asked by Dixie County Sheriff Dewey H. Hatcher Sr. to handle media requests.

Kathy McKinney of the Dixie County Advocate newspaper, whose brother-in-law, Maj. Scott Harden, works for the Dixie County Sheriff's Office, said deputies told her that Kalisz had been shot in the head and taken to Shands as well. His condition was unknown.

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The two woman killed have been identified as 61-year-old Kathryn Donovan and Deborah Buckley Tillotson, 59, both of Brooksville.

Also shot were Amy Wilson, 33, of Hudson and 18-year-old Manessa Donovan, who is Kathryn Donovan's daughter. Both are listed in stable condition.

Wilson and Tillotson worked for Kathryn Donovan at her home-based business, the sheriff's office reported.

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Reed is survived by his wife, Holly, two young sons, and a large extended family. He has spent his entire career working for Dixie County, serving as a volunteer firefighter, paramedic, emergency services director and at the sheriff's office.

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