MADISON, Wis. — Many renters in downtown Madison have already pushed security to the top of their “to do” list in the wake of a college student’s death in her apartment last week.
Chelsea McNerney, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, can now count on using the backdoor to her downtown flat, the one closest to her parking lot.
She and her second-floor roommates didn’t have keys to both locks on the back door, like the downstairs renters did, so they often got locked out and had to go around to the front.