A former emergency dispatcher has been suspended for mishandling a slain college student’s 911 call.
Topf Wells, chief of staff for Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, said Friday that Rita Gahagan will serve a three-day suspension without pay from her current job as a county child support clerk. Gahagan’s immediate supervisor will decide when she must begin the suspension.
Someone broke into University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann’s campus-area apartment in the middle of the day on April 2 and stabbed her to death. The killer remains at large.