Name Released in Fatal Officer Shooting

MARINETTE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) – Investigators have released the name of the man killed in Thursday’s officer-involved shooting in Marinette County.

Sheriff Jerry Sauve says the deceased is Jesse Cole Shuping of Portsmouth, Virginia.

“For the last month to six weeks or so, he’s been in our county.  He spent some time down in Green Bay doing some work.  He spent some time at a homeless shelter, befriended somebody there that very recently allowed him to stay at her residence.”

Sauve claims the incident at Marinette’s Budget Inn Motel that started things was likely the 35-year-old trying to collect a debt he believed one of the motel’s guests owed him.

“The person that he confronted was not this person, actually an employee there, who also rents there.”

The sheriff speculates why Shuping initiated a vehicle pursuit when officers tracked him to a Peshtigo home.

“Number one: he was wanted, number two: he was a convicted felon, number three: he was armed, which is a big violation, and number four: we believe he just committed a criminal act.”

Sauve notes Shuping has “an extensive criminal history, felony convictions from North Carolina and Virginia, wanted also from Virginia (on a grand larceny charge).”

The name of the officers involved are expected next week.