Marinette County Man Sentenced to 40 Years in Wife’s Shooting Death

The sentence is 40 years in prison for a Marinette County accused in the January shooting death of his wife.  Fifty-six-year-old Gary Rogge of Pembine pleaded no contest to first-degree reckless homicide in the death of Shelley Erickson-Rogge.  He claims he shot his wife accidentally after they had been drinking all day.  Rogge said they were shooting guns at the floor and he was showing Shelley a “quick draw.”  Rogge waited two hours to call 9-1-1.  Witnesses told police Gary and Shelley were arguing in a bar the day she was killed and surveillance video showed Gary Rogge kissing and holding hands with another woman.