Wife of Spa Shooting Suspect Among Dead

The estranged wife of a Wisconsin man who barged into a Wisconsin spa and allegedly shot seven women before killing himself is apparently among the three women who were fatally wounded.

Zina Haughton died after husband Radcliffe Haughton, 45, allegedly opened fire at the Azana Salon & Spa in Brookfield, Wis., Sunday, a source with knowledge of the investigation said. Police have yet to confirm the identities of the three women killed.

Police were called to the spa several weeks before the shooting because Haughton allegedly slashed the tires of his wife's car. He was arrested and charged for the incident, and later ordered to turn over all guns in his possession to the sheriff's department.

Zina Haughton sought a restraining order on her husband Oct. 8 and a judge issued a four-year restraining order Thursday, according to Brookfield Police Chief Daniel Tushaus.

Investigators say they are still unclear why Radcliffe Haughton allegedly snapped, although they say he and his wife had been estranged for some time.

Witnesses say Zina Haughton's daughter, Yasmeen Daniel, 20, also worked in the spa and witnessed the shooting.

"She had said her stepfather was in there trying to shoot as many people as he could," said Sallie Konruff, a witness at the scene.

Zina and Radcliffe Haughton have a 13-year-old daughter together, who was living with her father until the shooting, the source said.

Radcliffe Haughton's father, Radcliffe Haughton Sr., apologized to the victims and their families for his son's apparent actions shortly after the incident.

"All I can say is, I want to apologize to the people of Milwaukee who have been hurt. He did not give me any hint of what he would do," Haughton told ABC News affiliate WISN-TV.

Haughton Sr., who lives in Florida, told WISN that his son was a former Marine whom he had not seen since sometime last year but spoke to him on the phone from time to time.

The shooting erupted 11:09 a.m. local time in Brookfield, and shortly after SWAT teams surrounded the spa with their guns drawn, preparing for a gun battle.

Witnesses described screaming women, at least one bleeding, fleeing the spa, with one rolling down a slight hill before police scooped her up and got her out of the area.

Customers -- some still in robes, others barefoot -- ran out of the spa in a panic. John Gosh came face-to-face with the shooter as he tried to escape.

"When the suspect came around the corner, he really looked like a deer in headlights. He didn't expect us to be standing there. He just ducked behind the building," Gosh said.

Chief Tushaus said police rescued up to 12 clients and employees when they first arrived and began a painstaking search of the 9,000-square-foot building that includes two floors. The chief said the building included many treatment rooms, often locked.

"We were expecting an armed encounter," Tushaus said.

They found Haughton in a locked section of the building where he had apparently shot himself, the chief said. The four injured women ranged in age from 22 to 40 and were taken to Froedert Hospital with what were described as non-critical injuries.

The hospital was briefly placed on lock down and only patients with a police escort were being accepted. Employees wishing to enter had to show identification.

Sheriff deputies searched the hospital before lifting the lockdown, apparently worried that the gunman had followed the victims to the hospital.

A "be on the lookout" alert was issued for Haughton and hours later, a black 2003 Mazda driven by the suspect was recovered outside of Brookfield, but police declined to say where it was found.

Tushaus said police believe the gunman took a taxi to the spa.

Authorities swarmed Haughton's home in the suburb of Brown Deer, and sent in a robot to search the residence, ABC News' affiliate WISN reported.

Bullies Twice as Likely to Have Disorder

Mental disorders plague many adults who were bullied as children, but a new study suggests that those who had mental health disorders during childhood are three times more likely to become bullies.

Researchers at Brown University analyzed survey responses from parents of nearly 64,000 children ages 6 to 17 who were identified as having a mental health disorder, and those who were identified as bullies.

An estimated 15 percent of U.S. children in 2007 were identified as bullies by a parent or guardian, according to the responses, which were part of the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health.

Those who were considered the bullies were more than twice as likely to experience depression, anxiety and attention deficit disorder. They were also six times more likely to be diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder, characterized by ongoing episodes of anger and hostility, especially toward authority figures, such as parents, teachers or other adults.

"This study gives us a better understanding of the risk profiles of bullies," said Dr. Stefani Hines, director at the center for human development at Beaumont Children's Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich.

Hines was not involved in the study, which was presented Monday at the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting in New Orleans.

The findings do not surprise many experts, who say the symptoms of these disorders characterize many bullies.

According to Alan Hilfer, chief psychologist at Maimonedes Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., the disorders, such as ADHD, "often lead to impulsive and at times aggressive behaviors" that are common among bullies.

Bullies often continue the cycle of social abuse that they have experienced themselves, he said.

"They can be depressed, fearful, and they often take out some of their anger and frustration on others down the pecking order," said Hilfer.

Support is often given to the bullied peers who are seen as victims, the researchers said. Many bullies should also be viewed as victims and offered help to change their behavior, they said.

"This finding emphasizes the importance of providing psychological support to not only victims of bullying but bullies as well," the researchers wrote.

The study did not look at the likelihood that bullies would have a mental health disorder, only that some children who have a disorder were more likely to be identified as bullies.

According to Hines, the findings call for children identified as bullies to be screened for mental health disorders.

Some experts agreed, adding that it is also important for parents, clinicians and teachers to identify the root of the children's anger, and to help the children channel their aggression in a better way.

"Parents of bullies who are made aware of their child's behavior should take the concerns seriously and seek help and treatment for their child, hopefully in the earlier stages so that alternative behaviors can be taught and reinforced before some of the more negative ones become entrenched," said Hilfer.

Armstrong Stripped of His 7 Tour de France Titles

Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by cycling's governing body Monday following a report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that accused him of leading a massive doping program on his teams.

UCI President Pat McQuaid announced that the federation accepted the USADA's report on Armstrong and would not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

"Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling and he deserves to be forgotten in cycling," McQuaid said at a news conference. "This is a landmark day for cycling."

The decision clears the way for Tour de France organizers to officially remove Armstrong's name from the record books, erasing his consecutive victories from 1999-2005.

Tour director Christian Prudhomme has said the race would go along with whatever cycling's governing body decides and will have no official winners for those years.

Armstrong's representatives had no immediate comment.

USADA said Armstrong should be banned and stripped of his Tour titles for "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen" within his U.S. Postal Service and Discovery Channel teams. Under the penalties, he loses all his race results since August 1998.

The USADA report said Armstrong and his teams used steroids, the blood booster EPO and blood transfusions. The report included statements from 11 former teammates who testified against Armstrong, including testimony that he pressured them to take banned drugs.

"I was sickened by what I read in the USADA report," McQuaid said, singling out the testimony of former Armstrong teammate David Zabriskie. "The story he told of how he was coerced and to some extent forced into doping is just mind boggling."

Armstrong denies doping, saying he passed hundreds of drug tests. But he chose not to fight USADA in one of the agency's arbitration hearings, arguing the process was biased against him. USADA's report, released earlier this month, was aimed at showing why the agency ordered the sanctions against him.

"At the moment Lance Armstrong hasn't admitted to anything, yet all the evidence is there in this report that he doped," McQuaid said.

Former Armstrong team director Johan Bruyneel is also facing doping charges, but he is challenging the USADA case in arbitration.

On Sunday, Armstrong greeted about 4,300 cyclists at his Livestrong charity's fundraiser bike ride in Texas, telling the crowd he's faced a "very difficult" few weeks.

"I've been better, but I've also been worse," Armstrong, a cancer survivor, told the crowd.

While drug use allegations have followed the 41-year-old Armstrong throughout much of his career, the USADA report seems to have marked a turning point in the saga. Longtime sponsors Nike, Trek Bicycles and Anheuser-Busch dropped Armstrong last week, as did other companies, and he stepped down as chairman of Livestrong, the cancer awareness charity he founded 15 years ago after surviving testicular cancer which spread to his lungs and brain.

Armstrong's astonishing return from life-threatening illness to the summit of cycling offered an inspirational story that transcended the sport. However, his downfall has ended "one of the most sordid chapters in sports history," USADA said in its 200-page report published two weeks ago.

Intelligence Shows No Planning for Benghazi Consulate Attack

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The latest intelligence assessment of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi indicates there was little if any pre-planning for it and that it was in part an opportunistic response to the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack, which has become a political hot potato in the presidential campaign with questions over when the Obama administration called the attack an act of terrorism.

'Right now, there isn't any intelligence that the attackers pre-planned their assault days or weeks in advance,' said a U.S. intelligence official.  'The bulk of available information supports the early assessment that the attackers launched their assault opportunistically after they learned about the violence at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.'  But the official added that 'no one is ruling out that some of the attackers may have aspired to attack the U.S. in Benghazi.'

Republican lawmakers have seized on U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice's comments on Sunday talk shows days on September 16 attributing the deadly Benghazi attack to spontaneous protests against an anti-Muslim film made in the U.S. that had been posted on the Internet.    As more information emerged they pointed to the use of mortars and RPG's in the attack as indicating it was not a spontaneous protest as the Obama administration had claimed, but an act of terrorism.

Rice's comments were based on talking points she had been provided by the intelligence community.   The intelligence official said those talking points were written for members of Congress and senior U.S. officials so they 'could say something preliminary about the attacks.'  The official said they reflected 'the early indications of extremist involvement in a direct assault' and that 'it wasn't until after the points were used in public that people reconciled contradictory information and assessed there probably wasn't a protest around the time of the attack.'

On September 28 a spokesman for the Director of National Intelligence's office issued a press release revising the initial assessment that the attack on 'began spontaneously following protests earlier that day at our embassy in Cairo.'  The spokesman said new information indicated it 'was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by extremists.'

The DNI said it remained unclear if 'if any group or person exercised overall command and control of the attack, and if extremist group leaders directed their members to participate. However, we do assess that some of those involved were linked to groups affiliated with, or sympathetic to al-Qaeda.'

The current assessment is the latest shift in a narrative that has become politicized on Capitol Hill and the presidential campaign.  At a hearing before the House Oversight House and Government Reform Committee last week, State Department officials said there had been no protests outside the consulate compound at least an hour before the attack.

The official said the assessment evolved once again as 'it was clear from the outset that a group of people gathered that evening.'  He added, 'A key question early on was whether extremists took over a crowd or if the guys who showed up were all militants.  It took time'until that next week'to sort through varied and sometimes conflicting accounts to understand the group's overall composition.'

Armstrong: Recent Weeks Been 'Difficult'

Despite stepping down as the Livestrong Foundation's chairman this week, cyclist Lance Armstrong was on hand Friday night at the charity's 15th anniversary gala to give a speech, but it did not contain an explanation or apology for the alleged doping that cost him his medals, sponsors.

"It's been a difficult couple of weeks. I've been better and I've also been worse," he said once supporters finished clapping for him. "This mission is bigger than me. It's bigger than any individual."

His appearance comes just days after he was stripped of his stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from cycling by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and dropped by many sponsors following the release of the USADA's case file against Armstrong.

The USADA released a 200-page report last week, which include the names of 11 teammates who say he was using performance enhancing drugs to cheat. In August, he told the USADA that he wouldn't fight the June doping charges against him, but had insisted he never cheated.

Lance Armstrong's Teammates Say He Doped

The International Cycling Union could also strip Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles from 1995 to 2005. They could also require him to pay back at least $4 million in race winnings.

Sponsors who dropped Armstrong included Nike and Anheuser-Busch.

A blog post from his ex-wife Kristen earlier didn't help. She's been accused of being in on the doping, and used to call the blood booster EPO "butter" because they hid it in the butter. She wrote that she wasn't free to talk about much because of non-disclosure agreements.

"His choices were, and are, his," she wrote. "And mine are mine. And they haven't always been pretty. I am sorry if this is disappointing to you."

The Women in the Lance Armstrong Doping Scandal

On Wednesday, Armstrong stepped down from his cancer charity, Livestrong, which he founded in 1997, a year after he was diagnosed with testicular cancer at 25 years old. He said he stepped down to "spare the foundation any negative effects as a result of controversy surrounding my cycling career."

"He's been the inspiration for these people," said Livestrong CEO Doug Ulman. "His cancer journey led to this place. To have him here is phenomenal."

Livestrong Supporters Remain Confident in Mission

Despite the recent controversy, many Livestrong supporters remained confident in the organization's mission to provide cancer support services, citing faith in the other leaders of the charity.

"It's been kind of a bittersweet time, but I think Livestrong is going to live strong," supporter Julie Armstrong said.

Ulman confirmed the charity's continuing support of Armstrong saying, "He's our founder, he's been the inspiration for this movement'so it's phenomenal for him to be here tonight."

Celebrities also showed support of Lance and Livestrong as they walked the yellow carpet, but didn't offer much comment.

Sean Penn said, "Tonight is not about "that." Armstrong and others in attendance like Norah Jones, Stephen Marley, Ben Stiller and Robin Williams slipped in a back door, avoiding the media.

ABC News' Neal Karlinsky contributed to this report.

Missing Oregon Barista's Body Found, Man Arrested

The search for missing barista Whitney Heichel, 21, came to a close Friday night when police found her body and arrested a neighbor in connection with her death.

Police found Heichel's body on Larch Mountain, a 40-minute drive up winding roads from her home in Gresham, Ore.

They arrested Jonathan Holt, 24, an acquaintance and neighbor, after a series of interviews reportedly didn't add up and they found his fingerprints and DNA in her recovered car.

"Really words can't begin to express the sadness that our families are experiencing tonight," family spokesman Jim Vaughn said.

Heichel, 21, was reported missing on Tuesday morning when she did not show up for work at Starbucks, which was just a five minute drive from her home. Not long after, her Ford Explorer was found abandoned in a Walmart parking lot with its passenger side window shattered.

Her husband, Clinton, reported her missing at 10 a.m., about 2 and a half hours after she was supposed to report for work.

"I called her several times," Clinton Heichel said Wednesday. "I texted her several times and then actually at about 9:30ish, her phone got to the point where you would call and it went straight to voicemail."

Whitney Heichel's bank card was used to get gas at two different gas stations within eight minutes, her husband said, and police had been studying a surveillance video from the first station.

A man told police he recognized Heichel sitting in the passenger seat of her car at another station shortly before 9:30 a.m., but a man was driving.

Children playing outside an apartment building found Heichel's phone in some bushes on Thursday, and their parents knew it was Heichel's immediately because the screensaver showed her picture. It also had text messages asking if she was okay.

Earlier in the week, a search team discovered tire tracks, broken glass and Heichel's license plate on Larch Mountain, where they would later find her body.

Her mother, Lorelei Ritmiller, spoke to the city council on Thursday.

""She's gentle. She's compassionate...She's this compassionate laughing person. Her heart is as big as the sun ... This is just a great human being. This is a person you'd think no one could ever hurt," Ritmiller said, according to ABC News affiliate KATU.

Ritmiller said she saw her daughter for the last time on Monday, and they talked about her greatest hope, which was to have children.

"Whitney in many ways represented all of our wives, daughters, and loved ones," said Gresham Mayor Shane Bemis.

Docs Back Up Claims for More Security in Benghazi

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Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have released new documents backing up claims by security personnel previously station in Libya that there was a shortage of security personnel in Benghazi.

The documents contain previously unreleased cables from Ambassador Stevens and his staff reflecting concerns about safety in the country.

The U.S. State Department did not have an immediate comment.

One signed by Stevens and titled 'LIBYA'S FRAGILE SECURITY DETERIORIATES AS TRIBAL RIVALRIES, POWER PLAYS AND EXTREMISM INTENSIFY,' dated June 25, 2012, assess the increase in violence. 'From April to June, Libya also witnesses an increase in attacks targeting international organizations and foreign interests,' Stevens wrote, describing attacks on a United Nations official in Benghazi, International Committee for the Red Cross buildings in Benghazi and Misrata, and IED at the mission in Benghazi, and RPG fired at the British Ambassador's convoy, and an attack on the consulate of Tunisia.

A Libyan government national security official told Stevens 'that the attacks were the work of extremists who are opposed to western influence in Libya. A number of local contacts agreed, noting that Islamic extremism appears to be on the rise in eastern Libya and that the Al-Qaeda flag has been spotted several times flying over government buildings and training facilities in Derna,' a village to the east in Benghazi. Other contacts disagreed with that assessment, however.

Another cable from Stevens, titled 'The Guns of August; security in eastern Libya' and dated August 8, 2012, states 'Since the eve of the (July) elections, Benghazi has moved from trepidation to euphoria and back as a series of violent incidents has dominated the political landscape during the Ramadan holiday.' Stevens describes the incidents as 'organized, but this is not an organized campaign.' The Supreme Security Council, the interim security force, he says, 'has not coalesced into a stabilizing force and provides little deterrence.'

Stevens wrote that the people of Benghazi want a security apparatus but 'inherently fear abuse by the same authorities. This debate, playing out daily in Benghazi, has created the security vacuum that a diverse group of independent actors are exploiting for their own purposes.'

A cable signed by Stevens on the day of his murder, September 11, described a meeting with the Acting Principal Officer of the Supreme Security Council in Benghazi, commander Fawzi Younis, who 'expressed growing frustration with police and security forces (who were too weak to keep the country secure)''

The documents also included an 'ACTION MEMO' for Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy dated December 27, 2011, and written by US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman. With the subject line: 'Future of Operations in Benghazi, Libya,' the memo states: 'With the full complement of five Special Agents, our permanent presence would include eight U.S. direct hire employees.'

This would seem to suggest that Undersecretary Kennedy had approved a plan for five permanent security agents in Benghazi, but that never happened. It should be noted that there were ultimately a total of five Diplomatic Security Agents in Benghazi that night since there were two stationed at the Benghazi compound, and three escorted Ambassador Chris Stevens to the compound.

In a letter to President Obama, House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chair of the Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense, and Foreign Operations, note the Obama administration response that 'two extra DS agents would have made no difference. This misses the point. These agents would have provided the added cover to fully evacuate all personnel from the compound ' not just those who survived.'

One of the key conversations in the documents begins on February 11, at 5:29 pm, when Shawn Crowley, a foreign service officer at the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, writes: 'Apologies for being a broken record, but beginning tomorrow Benghazi will be down to two agents'We have no drivers and new local guard contract employees have no experience driving armored vehicles''

On February 11, 1:13 pm, Regional Security Officer of the Libyan Embassy Eric Nordstrom emails State Department officials, cc-ing then-Ambassador Gene Cretz, saying he'll try to send personnel from the Security Support Team to Benghazi. 'I'll speak with our SST personnel to se if they can free up 1 or 2 bodies for Benghazi'.While the status of Benghazi remains undefined, DS' ' Diplomatic Security ' 'is hesitant to devout (sic) resources and as I indicated previously, this has severely hampered operations in Benghazi. That often means that DS agents are there guarding a compound with 2 other DOS personnel present. That often means that outreach and reporting is non-existent.'

Norstrom notes that the British have 'a 5 person team assigned to just their head of mission, so they have made a commitment to maintain a larger presence in Benghazi than the USG,' the U.S. government.

At 8:53 pm. James Bacigalupo, the Regional Director Near East Asia Bureau of Diplomatic Security DSS for the State Department, emails Nordstrom, 'Call me, I am surprised at your statement that 'DS is hesitant to devote resources as I (you) have indicated previously that has severely limited operations in Benghazi.''

Norstrom responds on Sunday, February 12: 8:58 pm 'we have had multiple times previously had no movements in Benghazi because we had only 2 DS agents on the ground. Havingno movements for upwards for 10 days severely limits operations in Benghazi. I've been placed in a very difficult spot when the Ambassador tells me that I need to support Benghazi but can't direct MSD' ' Mobile Security Detachment ' ' there and been advised that DS isn't going to provide more than 3 DS agents over the long term.'

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Nordstrom adds at 9:00 pm: 'the last time we had only 2 agents at post, suspending outside movements for approximately 10 days.'

Meanwhile, security on the ground became increasingly precarious.

A March 2012 memo (mistakenly cited as 2011) from the Research & Information Support Center titled 'Progress Elusive in Libya,' based on open-source reporting, states that in late December 2011 'reports indicated that al-Qa'ida leadership in Pakistan had sent 'experienced jihadists to Libya to build a new base of operations in the country. Between May and December 2011, one of these jihadists had recruited 200 fighters in the eastern part of the country. Documents seized in Iraq indicate that many foreign fighters who participated in the Iraqi insurgency hailed from eastern Libya. This small batch of fighters would have been dealt with quickly by a central authority, were it in place. Until a stronger national army or guard force is developed, rural Libya will remain fertile territory for terrorist groups such as al-Qai'da in the Islamic Maghreb.'

The committee also released some photographs of the Benghazi compound, before and after the attack.

Issa and Chaffetz say they've 'been told repeatedly' that the Obama administration not only 'repeatedly reject(ed) requests for increased security despite escalating violence, but it also systematically decreased existing security to dangerous and ineffective levels,' and did so 'to effectuate a policy of 'normalization' in Libya after the conclusion of its civil war.'

This 'normalization,' the GOP congressman write, 'appeared to have been aimed at conveying the impression that the situation in Libya was getting better, not worse. The administration's decision to normalize was the basis for systematically withdrawing security personnel and equipment ' including a much-needed DC-3 aircraft ' without taking into account the reality on the ground. In an interview with Mr. Nordstrom, he maintained that the State Department routinely made decisions about security in early 2012 without first consulting him.' The congressmen submit ten questions for the president to answer.

-Jake Tapper