Eleven additional charges have now been filed against Brian Flatoff, 45 of Stevens Point, who is accused of taking hostages at Eagle Nation Cycles in Neenah and a standoff with police that lead to a man being killed.
Flatoff was charged Wednesday morning with felony murder, two counts of attempted first degree intentional homicide, taking hostages, false imprisonment, conspiracy to commit first degree intentional homicide, failure to comply with an officer's attempt to take person into custody, an additional count of possession of a firearm by a felon and three additional counts of felony bail jumping.
Flatoff already faced five charges filed last week from an incident before he went to Eagle Nations Cycle. Those charges were second degree recklessly endangering safety, possession of a firearm by a felon and three counts of felony bail jumping, according to a criminal complaint filed in Winnebago County.
According to the criminal complaint, a woman told police she believed her "very good friend" was involved in the hostage incident.
Flatoff had been at the woman's home as an overnight guest. She said she'd been up all night with Flatoff and he had been drinking vodka or rum throughout the night and was intoxicated in the early morning hours.
The woman said Flatoff had a .45 caliber pistol and shot a hole in the wall above her head after they had yelled at each other, according to the complaint. Flatoff then calmed down and discussed his ongoing issues over a motorcycle with employees at Eagle Nation Motorcycles. The woman said she wasn't concerned about Flatoff's plan to go to Eagle Nation Cycles because he assured her he was going to speak like an adult about the issues he was having.
The woman said she went to bed after Flatoff left. When she found out police had been called to the motorcycle shop, she discovered her Mac-10 9mm handgun was missing.
Dispatch advised police that Flatoff was giving five minutes to speak with someone or he would start shooting hostages inside Eagle Nation Cycles. A group of five officers then prepared to make entry into the motorcycle shop.
The first two officers to enter the rear door fell down a stairwell, according to the complaint. Officers yelled at Flatoff to drop his weapon and get on the floor. Bullets were fired at the officers as they entered, and one officer returned fire from the rear doorway. During this exchange, an officer's ballistic helmet was shot by Flatoff, according to the complaint.
Shortly after officers backed out of the rear door, several gun shots were fired from that direction and they saw one of the hostages, Michael Funk, exit the rear door. Funk had a silver handgun in his hands. Officers yelled "police, show me your hands" or "police drop the gun" but Funk moved while holding the gun in a manner that caused officers to fear for their safety, according to the complaint. Police fired at Funk and he fell to the ground.
After repositioning a tactical armored vehicle to recover Funk, they got him to an ambulance crew, which transported him to the hospital where hew as pronounced dead on arrival.
You can see the criminal complaint here.
Last week the Neenah Police Department issued a press release about the standoff. You can read that release here.
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