New Details Emerge, Pilot Gas Station Shooter Identified: Report

RACINE COUNTY — The Hartland man who shot another man Tuesday morning at the Pilot Travel Center has been identified in a report. The Wisconsin Department of Justice said in a news release that the shooter killed himself after exchanging gunfire with an undercover investigator.

The Racine County Sheriff's Office identified the victim of the shooting Wednesday as Anthony F. Griger of Elkhorn, 22.

The shooter killed Griger at the Pilot Travel Center in Franksville Tuesday, the Racine County Sheriff's Office said. Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said that Griger was "executed." After the shooting at the first gas station, the shooter fled to a separate gas station two miles east.

The shooter was identified as John R. McCarthy, 32, according to a WISN 12 report.

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A news release from the DOJ said the shooter approached an undercover investigator as he was pumping gas at the second gas station. The man shot at and attempted to steal the investigator's car, the DOJ news release said.

The investigator and the shooter exchanged gunfire. The shooter then shot himself, the DOJ news release said.

Hartland Police Department investigators searched McCarthy's apartment in Hartland on Tuesday, according to the WISN 12 report.

Residents of McCarthy's building told WISN 12 that a fire alarm had gone off about an hour before the shooting occurred in Racine, and that McCarthy was the only person unaccounted for as they all evacuated the building. Residents later realized that the fire alarm was set off from inside McCarthy's unit, the report said.

Another resident told WISN 12 that they had seen McCarthy before he left.

"He was really jittery, man. Running around like he was crazy," the apartment resident told WISN 12. "And then all of a sudden he got in his car and away he went."

McCarthy attempted to carjack a separate Pilot Travel Center patron's car after Griger was killed, according to the DOJ news release. He was unsuccessful at the carjacking, so he took his own car to the Mobil Gas Station on Highway K where he then shot at the investigator, the news release said.

The Mobil gas station is two miles east from the first shooting location.

See the full WISN 12 report.