Category: Crime and safety

The couple, Dr. Beth Potter and her husband Robin Carre, was found shot and left for dead in the UW Arboretum in March 2020.

Alijah Larrue was sentenced later in the day to eight years in prison, plus extended supervision.

It was quickly determined that the person was deceased, but officials suspect no foul play.

Rescue teams were called to Lake Mendota Friday morning behind the UW Memorial Union, where they found a man’s body in the water.

Marc Lovicott, Executive Director of Communications for UW–Madison Police Department, said the initial report came from someone who thought they heard gunshots. He said police thoroughly checked the area and found nothing.

UW-Madison police say it is safe to resume normal activities after a shots fired report Sunday morning at Picnic Point.

According to a UW Health official, the outage occurred around 1 p.m. when a problem occurred with one of the building’s electrical transformers.

Sergeant Amanda Poli with the Madison Police Department says someone ran off while officers were trying a traffic stop. Poli says that person is in custody, but the investigation is still ongoing.

Incident prompted campus-wide alert asking people to avoid the area.

In an incident report from the Madison Police Department, it states that officers were trying to perform a traffic stop around 7:55 p.m. on Langdon Street and North Frances Street when one of the occupants of the vehicle ran away. MPD said that the person was taken into custody.

A UW staff member of Asian descent was running along the Lakeshore Path when a man yelled a racial slur from a vehicle, then got out of the vehicle to approach the victim. The suspect was later identified as Tom Gbean, 28, of Oswego, IL.

Incident comes after at least two documented attacks on students of Asian descent in greater campus area in recent weeks.

UW-Madison police arrested two people following a traffic stop Saturday.

The fire was contained to one large structure that housed farming equipment and hay, and no people or animals were injured, said UW-Madison police spokesperson Marc Lovicott.

Deforest Fire Department responded Sunday afternoon to reports of a barn on fire at the Arlington Research Station and multiple other local fire departments followed quickly to assist, UW Police said.

Fifteen years to the date that a 22-year-old UW-Whitewater student disappeared from Madison’s State Street and was later found dead in a wooded property of Dane County, her family announced a new reward for any information leading to the conviction of her killer.

“They have a group of people, they’re probably going to attack me,” Wang recalled.

Student leaders at UW-Madison held an emergency student council meeting Monday night to call out university officials on their response to the attack of an Asian doctoral student on June 14.

Outraged and feeling unsafe, UW international students led a group of hundreds down State Street in a protest demanding more action be taken to protect Asian students on campus.

The string of attacks was noted by the police department in a statement that detailed the third one.

Organizers behind the Rally Against Asian Hate in Madison wrote on Facebook that on June 14, a male PhD student was “randomly attacked by five young male strangers.”

International Student Services condemned the violent behavior in an email statement to The Badger Herald and affirmed that international students are a key part of the university’s diversity and deserve to feel safe in the campus community.

A string of recent assaults near campus, including an attack on an international doctoral student Tuesday night, prompted members of the campus community to band together to spread the message to #StopAsianHate.

Two people were arrested and a police officer suffered a minor injury following a traffic stop during which the vehicle’s occupants tried to fight officers, the UW-Madison Police Department said Thursday.

Around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, the department said an officer attempted to stop a vehicle at the intersection of East Gorham St. and Pinckney St.

The University of Wisconsin Madison says that it is “deeply concerned” after receiving reports of violence and aggression against students from Asian, Pacific Islander and Desi American communities.

An Asian man was assaulted on one of Madison’s busiest streets  – off University Avenue near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus – on Tuesday.

A man has been found guilty of fatally shooting a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband, who were the parents of his girlfriend, and leaving their bodies at the school’s arboretum.

The jury has found Khari Sanford guilty Monday in the killings of Robin Carre and Dr. Beth Potter, who were kidnapped and shot in the UW Arboretum over two years ago.

The university’s police department alerted people that they would see the emergency vehicles, including members from its department and other area police departments, in the area through approximately 10:30 a.m.