A Wisconsin bartender and her “inseparable” husband were shot to death inside a sports bar last week, and authorities are still searching for the “scumbag” behind the mysterious double murder.
Sports Page Bar employees Gina Weingart, 37, and Emerson Weingart, 33, were killed in the deadly gunfire that rang out just after midnight last Thursday. Elkhorn Police said.
Multiple agencies rushed to the scene after receiving reports of shots fired at the business.
When authorities arrived, they found the couple, who had just been married this summer, fatally shot, but their killers were nowhere to be found.
The owner of the bar, Jordan Barr, said a “coward” came into the bar and started shooting. in a Facebook post.
“Their lives are just beginning and we believe we speak for the entire Sports Page family in saying we are completely devastated by what happened,” Barr wrote. “This is a despicable act of violence that shakes us all to our core.”
A motive has not yet been determined and police have not released a suspect description.
The couple had been regulars at the bar for years and had become close with the staff and patrons. Barr said Gina was eventually offered a part-time job at the facility.
The victims both grew up in the Badger State and were married in June, according to . their obituaries.
According to online obituaries, Emerson was an avid fisherman and a big Green Bay Packers fan, while Gina loved to sing and dance.
“Gina and Emerson started dating in 2020 and have become inseparable,” their loved ones wrote. “Gina and Emerson Weingart were recently married in June 2023. They are the most beautiful, kind-hearted, fun-loving couple I have ever known.”
Elkhorn is a city of about 10,000 people about 60 miles from Milwaukee.
Emerson’s father, Jeff Weingart, hopes someone will come forward and provide police with information that could lead to an arrest.
“It’s heartbreaking,” he said. Weekend WIS. “Someone saw them. Somebody saw them. I don’t care, I won’t do that.
“I can’t believe it was just her and him at the bar. So someone had to see them, someone had to describe them, someone had to see the car as he drove away. They had better find him.”
