ELKHORN, Wi — The city of Elkhorn is home to about 10,000 people. It's a small town deeply impacted by the shooting deaths of a husband and wife.
Dozens of flowers and candles can be found in front of the Sports Page Barr on Wisconsin Street in downtown Elkhorn. Plus, a picture of Gina and Emerson Weingart sits near the doorstep of the bar.
"She was always bubbly, always happy,” Jenna Wasser explained.
Wasser lives above the sports bar. She can't even fathom that the shooter is still on the loose.
"I've been on edge since I saw that and they still haven't caught the suspect. I'm hoping they can resolve this as quick and in a timely fashion” Wasser said.
A few doors down from the bar is Home Décor and Vintage where the staff is being extremely cautious.
"Just coming in here, her door was locked, which I do not blame her whatsoever,” said a community member who wanted to remain anonymous.
She says she is on edge too. “You're worried about looking over your shoulder. You don't know when it's going to happen again, hopefully it doesn't. But it's just the fact that it happened in our small town, it's just getting a little out of control."
However, residents don't want to live in fear.
"We purposely came out to the shops here on this street because we want to support the local businesses and not let fear get in the way,” Elkhorn resident, Laura Mcleod explained.
Mcleod and her husband live a few blocks from downtown. The thought of an unsolved crime isn't sitting well with her.
"It just feels weird that there's no answer and we don't know who did it."
Gerry Rahn owns a flower shop steps away from the Sports Page Barr and has seen first hand how the community is showing their love for Gina and Emerson Weingart.
"People have been in here to get flowers. They said we don't know what else to do, they just can't believe it happened in a small town like that," said Rahn.
Gerry has owned the shop in Elkhorn for the past 40 years and has never seen something like this happen before.
"It could've happened to us, it's like you want to go home and close your doors."
That uneasiness is a feeling other shop managers are experiencing, too. Megan VanDyke runs Ketchpaws Barber Shop in Elkhorn.
"I still am very much in disbelief," said VanDyke.
She says the lack of information is putting a lot of people on edge.
"We don't know anything yet, and I think that's the scariest part for a lot of us is there's just no information on a lot of this yet."
Her two four-legged friends who join her at the shop are therapy dogs who's services have been needed over the past few days.
"Some of the people that live in this area and lived above where the shooting has happened, they came in and they knew the dogs were there and the dogs did what they were supposed to. They're big sweethearts and this is what they do, is help people through tragedies."
So whether it's buying flowers or sharing love from two sweet dogs in the face of uncertainty the people in town are lifting each other up in any way they can.
The family has started a GoFundMe for funeral costs. You can donate here.
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