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During the hearing and in the complaint, prosecutors described the extent of the victim’s injuries. The complaint states, as of Thursday, she had been diagnosed with a Grade Two Traumatic Brain Injury and an MRI shows a brain bleed. Initially after the attack, the victim was placed in a medically induced coma and she still has trouble staying awake, the District Attorney’s Office continued.

The suspect was identified and arrested using video, witness statements and biological evidence, MPD confirmed.

A Dane County, Wisconsin, judge ordered Brandon A. Thompson held on $1 million bail Thursday after a brutal attack left a University of Wisconsin-Madison student hospitalized with life-threatening injuries early Sunday morning.

Videos submitted by members of the public helped lead police back to a man who claimed to be a witness in the violent assault on a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, a man now accused of attacking the woman early Sunday.

Police in Madison, Wis., are working to identify a suspect after a University of Wisconsin student was violently assaulted. WMTV’s Camberyn Kelley reports.

A suspect is in custody after a University of Wisconsin-Madison student was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted, the Madison Police Department said.

A 26-year-old man allegedly raped and beat a University of Wisconsin at Madison student and then posed as an innocent bystander after the attack, cops said.

A traffic stop led to the arrest of a 26-year-old man wanted in connection to a sidewalk sex assault that put a University of Wisconsin-Madison student in the hospital with life-threatening injuries early Sunday morning.

At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Police Chief Shon Barnes said Thompson is expected to be charged with first-degree sexual assault, first-degree reckless injury and strangulation, all felonies.

Madison’s police chief gave an update Wednesday afternoon after the suspect in a UW-Madison student assault was arrested.

A man was arrested Wednesday morning in the physical and sexual assault of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student that occurred early Sunday morning.

Wednesday marks the start of a new semester for students at UW-Madison and following the brutal attack of a female student by a stranger over the weekend near campus, university police are addressing students’ growing concerns around safety.

UWPD Chief Kristen Roman condemned the attack during the news conference. “The violence perpetrated against this young woman Sunday morning was horrific and will not be tolerated,” Roman said. “This is not Madison, this is not UW-Madison, the safety of our Badger community will remain always our top priority we will work collaboratively with our city partners to prevent sexual violence.”

A woman, who police said is in her 20s, was found with severe injuries Sunday just after 3:15 a.m. between West Wilson and Bedford streets. She was taken to a hospital in critical condition, but police said Tuesday that she is expected to survive.

The mess of metal underwater posed hazards not just to those who fell into the lake but those tasked with getting them out. “Putting our divers into an environment like that where the structure is collapsed upon itself and intertwined is very dangerous for our divers,” Lt. Jon Mast from the department’s Lake Rescue Team said.

Madison police are calling for surveillance footage after a woman was physically and sexually assaulted downtown over the weekend.The woman, now identified as UW-Madison student in her 20s, was attacked on West Wilson Street around 3 a.m. Sunday.

Mnookin and Provost Charles Lee Isbell explained to the freshmen and transfer students how important it is to look out for oneself and that there are resources available to them.

“Well, so there were a lot of people on the pier,” said freshman Jenna Pistono. “We were kind of sitting on the part that is to the left that kind of went down first but there were a lot of guys doing back flips, so a lot of weight on there, and suddenly we just started going under.”

The victim in an attack early Sunday morning that the Madison Police Department described as ‘horrific’ is expected to survive, the police department reported in a Tuesday update. Its latest statement also revealed she had been sexually assaulted in addition to being physically beaten.

Following the New Student Convocation on Tuesday, UW-Madison Police Department Chief Kristen Roman and Lori Reesor, first vice chancellor for student affairs, spoke to reporters about the incident, and acknowledged the attack has rattled some students and families.

“Whenever a traumatic event like this happens, it also has great impact on people who have also experienced other traumatic events who are just anxious and fearful for themselves as well,” Reesor said.