NEENAH, WI -- Eleven new, more serious charges have been filed against Brian Flatoff, the suspect in a deadly Neenah motorcycle shop standoff earlier this month.
Those charges include two counts of Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide, and Felony Murder for the fatal officer involved shooting death of hostage, and shop co-owner, Michael Funk.
Flatoff is currently being held on a half million dollar cash bond.
Eyewitness accounts in this latest criminal complaint tell a story of shoot outs, confusion, and fear from the moment Flatoff entered Eagle Nation with his gun drawn.
In the complaint, hostage Ryan Moderson tells police, around 8:40 Saturday morning, he and Funk hear a truck pull up to Eagle Nation's back garage door.
Moments later, Flatoff enters, gun drawn, telling hostages he had "75 rounds of ammo" with him before firing a round into the ceiling.
Moderson says he heard Funk say, "we know you're serious, we are scared to death," to which Flatoff replies, "you ought to be scared."
45 minutes later, Moderson sees police come through the back door.
"I heard, 'police! Drop your gun, drop your gun," recalls Moderson in a previous interview, "got down on the floor and went behind the counter. Immediately the gunfire erupted."
Police enter shop, Flatoff opens fire
From the moment a "Hasty Team" of five officers entered through the back door of the shop, chaos ensues.
The criminal complaint says upon entering, two officers fall down a stairwell into the shop's basement, where one could see "vapor trails from bullets being fired at the entry team" above him.
As police fight to exit the shop through the back door, the complaint says one officer--Craig Hoffer--was shot by Flatoff in the head.
Eyewitnesses say Hoffer yelled "I'm hit," and fell out of the doorway.
The complaint says "the bullet struck Officer Hoffer's ballistic helmet," saving his life.
Flatoff's additional charges of Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide stem from this shootout with police.
After the shootout, the complaint says police retreat to the alley.
Moments after officers retreat, Michael Funk would come under fire by police after exiting the shop.
Funk is shot, officers "fear for their safety"
Moments later, Officer Raymond Berna says he saw Funk exit the rear of the shop, with a silver handgun in his hands.
The complaint says Flatoff fired at Funk multiple times as he tried to leave the shop.
Police say they repeated commands for Funk to drop his gun.
Berna says Funk then moved "in a manner that caused officers to fear for their safety," and they opened fire.
"And then [Flatoff] walked us by gunpoint to the door," recalls Moderson, "and then I went outside, and I saw [Funk] laying in the alley."
Flatoff was arrested shortly after. It's still unclear who fired the shots that killed Funk.
"The person who was committing the initial felonies can be charged with Felony Murder," explains Winnebago Co. Deputy D.A. Scott Ceman, in reference to the latest charge against Flatoff.
"I would have probably killed him"
The complaint goes on to describe how Flatoff admits he had "snapped," and was ready to kill others, including himself, before the hostage situation was over.
The complaint says, shortly after his arrest, Flatoff tells investigators he had "every intention of killing" Vance Dalton--a man with whom Flatoff had a dispute over a motorcycle.
Flatoff tells police he went to the shop to get his motorcycle back, and "snapped" when he saw it partially disassembled.
The complaint goes on to say Flatoff told a hostage to call Dalton to the shop, and that he was going to "cut Dalton's throat," and then "kill himself."
Flatoff tells police again, "I would have probably killed him."
