PESHTIGO (NBC 26) — The Dane County sheriffs on Tuesday provided more details on the circumstances leading up to a deadly use of force incident near Peshtigo.

Sheriff Kalvin Barrett said the 23-year-old man who was shot and killed by Marinette police officers on Friday was a suspect in the murder of a 70-year-old man in the Town of Mazomanie the day before.

The 70-year-old, identified by the medical examiner as Thomas Muckler, had traveled from his home in Madison to his cabin on Dunlap Hollow Road in Mazomanie, Barrett said. After arriving in his cabin, he was killed by the younger man, who had broken into the house and had been living there for an unknown period of time, according to Barrett.

When Muckler did not return to Madison for dinner, the family grew concerned and went to the

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