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Slain Woman ID'd Ex-Wisconsin Deputy as Her Attacker: Police

A woman told police before she died that she had been attacked by her brother-in-law, a retired sheriff's deputy suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
Image: Emergency personnel transport Andy Steele from his home in Fitchburg, Wis., where authorities said Steele's wife, Ashlee Steele and sister-in-law, Kacee Tollesfsbol, were found shot dead on Aug. 22
Emergency personnel transport Andy Steele from his home in Fitchburg, Wis., where authorities said Steele's wife, Ashlee Steele and sister-in-law, Kacee Tollesfsbol, were found shot dead on Aug. 22. Authorities said on Aug. 26 that Tollefsbol called 911 around 1 p.m. Friday and said Andy Steele had shot her in the back. Andy Steele was arrested but hasn't been charged.John Hart / Wisconsin State Journal via AP

A woman told police before she died that she had been attacked by her brother-in-law, a newly retired Wisconsin sheriff's deputy suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, according to new court documents. Andy Steele, a former Dane County Sheriff's deputy, was arrested after the attack at his home Friday that left his wife, Ashlee Steele, and her sister, Kacee Tollefsbol, dead. He hasn't been charged yet, but according to investigators, Tollefsbol implicated him as her assailant twice before she died at the University of Wisconsin hospital in Madison.

According to a police affidavit released Tuesday, Tollefsbol, 38, of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, called 911 at around 1 p.m. Friday from her sister's home in Fitchburg, a Madison suburb of about 26,000 residents. She said her brother-in-law had shot her in the back and she thought he must have shot himself because she heard two shots.

Officers found her in the basement, where she again said her brother-in-law had shot her. She died shortly after arriving at the hospital. Members of a sheriff's department SWAT team found 39-year-old Ashlee Steele dead in the home. She had been shot in the head. They found Andrew Steele in a laundry room and a 9 mm pistol on the counter.

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- The Associated Press