Salon shooting
Friend of Brookfield shooting victim heartbroken
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Charles Benson reports Video by 620wtmj.com
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BROOKFIELD- A friend of one of the victims in the Brookfield shooting is heartbroken over the tragedy.
Deb Kohler says Maelyn Lind wasn't just her hairdresser, but her friend.
"She died way too young," says Kohler. "She was funny. She loved her family, she loved her kids."
Maelyn was the mother of four. Two months ago, she became a grandmother.
Kohler has the baby gift she was going to give Maelyn on Sunday, as they were supposed to get together that afternoon.
"I texted her as normal: 'Are we on for today?' and she didn't return my text, which was something very odd," explains Kohler.
Odd quickly turned to worry when she heard about the shooting at Azana Spa and Salon. Then Kohler encountered her own horror after seeing a picture of the shooter, Radcliffe Haughton, someone she met years ago when he worked in the auto business.
"To have shaken the hand of somebody that used that hand to kill a friend is just something I'm going to have to pray a lot to figure out why," says Kohler.
Kohler is left wondering why someone would take the life of a woman who had so much more to give.
"There are so many people that loved her that did not get to say goodbye to her and that is the tragedy of all of this."
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