“We’re working to figure out exactly what happened to them. We’re canvassing the neighborhood as we speak talking to people who live here seeing if they heard something or saw something,” said UWPD Spokesperson Marc Lovicott.
The officers detained the suspect shortly thereafter and he was again taken into custody, UWPD continued. No injuries were reported.
Officials say the 911 call came in at about 6:30 Tuesday morning, when the jogger found a man and woman in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum ditch.
Two officers with the Fitchburg Police Department were transporting a man to the hospital for treatment and evaluation when the man tried to disarm an officer, said UWPD spokesman, Marc Lovicott.
UW-Madison Police Department Communications Director Marc Lovicott said a jogger called police around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday to report finding two people in the ditch on the side of a path near Wingra Drive. The man was pronounced dead on scene, while the woman died after being transported to a hospital.
Racist, anti-Chinese graffiti appeared on UW-Madison’s campus earlier this week, the latest in an increasing number of university incidents spilling out on sidewalks and social media.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says the university is responding to an uptick in racism against Asian and Asian-Americans on campus as the coronavirus spreads.
A 53-year-old man was charged Friday in the 2008 killing of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was found strangled and stabbed in her downtown apartment after she returned home from class.
Aman police had questioned multiple times in the beating and stabbing death of a 21-year-old UW-Madison student in her campus-area apartment nearly 12 years ago was charged Friday in the case.
“Students will be able to pursue a Title IX suit in the event that a university fails to act appropriately,” DAIS executive director said.
Rutgers University, Kent State University, the University of San Diego, Penn State University, Kennesaw State University, Fairfield University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Connecticut and the University of Georgia all told NBC News that they will not have any students self-quarantined on campus in dorms or other university housing.
A new multiple day law enforcement youth academy is coming to UW-Madison this summer. UW-Madison Police Department announced the program on Friday.
The University of Wisconsin placed her on paid leave in mid-2019 after colleagues inside and outside the hospital accused her of intimidation or retaliation, an internal letter shows.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department has identified two suspects who took off in a UW Hospital patient’s car as it was being valeted last month.
Police say three people were walking on the 1200 block of Regent Street when a young man asked to borrow their phone to call his mom. The victims said once they gave him a phone, he ran across the street to join two other men.
Madison police say two of three suspects have been arrested following a mugging that took place in the 1200 block of Regent St. early Sunday morning.
A former University of Wisconsin football player who is the brother of a standout in the 2011 Super Bowl has been formally charged in a double homicide that police say was connected to a drug deal.
Marcus Randle El turned himself into police in Chicago on Saturday afternoon with members of the Janesville Police Department on hand at the time. The 33-year-old Randle El is facing two counts of first degree intentional homicide.
Marcus Randle-El, 33, turned himself into the Chicago Police Department on Saturday and was taken into custody. He is currently facing two counts of first-degree intentional homicide.
“It’s for me to be an advocate and a partner with the downtown community and really bridge that gap with the downtown and the police department,” Officer Diego Lema Hernandez, said.
The university suspended the chapter in October of 2019. Since then, the university and Sigma Chi International (SCI), the fraternity’s parent organization, have worked to address the incident.
The chapter surrendered its charter to Sigma Chi International (SCI), its parent organization, which means it no longer may operate as a registered student organization at the university.
Sigma Chi, located at 221 Langdon, can no longer operate as a registered student organization at UW — meaning it can not hold events and activities, but will still be held accountable for any violations of UW’s student conduct policies. This decision comes after the suspension of Sigma Chi this past October.
Madison police arrested a 21-year-old man who posed as an athlete at UW-Madison and stole property from a student after making regular appearances at Witte Residence Hall.
AUW-Madison student discovered one of his roommates, who he was living with temporarily, stole his debit card to make multiple purchases at several Madison stores, police said.
“Lollis has a history of passing himself off as a UW-Madison student and athlete. He has been arrested several times for theft, trespassing, and harassment,” police said. “Lollis is not a UW-Madison student.”
According to a WiscAlert, Engineering Centers, Materials Science will be closed today. Officials say classes are being relocated.
The victim said he allowed Lollis to live with him and his roommates after they said the 21-year-old passed himself off as a UW-student and Badger athlete.
“They are actively working to pump water out of the steam tunnel right now because when the water main break happened, that’s where all the water flowed,” said UW-Madison Police public information officer Marc Lovicott.
The University of Wisconsin did not release reports for two sexual harassment investigations that would detail what actions occurred and how the investigation was carried out.
A Madison man who reported a strong-arm robbery has been arrested for filing a false police report, UW-Madison police reported.
A Madison man is in hot water after he reportedly lied to police and said he was mugged on the UW-Madison campus.
Robber struck victim, stole wallet, cell phone.
New feature an effort to keep more community members safe, UWPD said.
The languages are English, Spanish, Hmong, Tibetan, Chinese and Nepali.
Emergency messages sent to UW-Madison community members will soon come in six different languages, a first for any college campus in the country, according to police.
Federal authorities recently closed one of several investigations looking into UW-Madison’s handling of sexual assaults and also opened gender discrimination cases at two other University of Wisconsin campuses last year.
Fire crews and the department’s Lake Rescue Team both assisted, as did UW-Madison Police.
In another Mar-a-Lago trespassing case, a University of Wisconsin student was arrested in November 2018 after he mixed in with guests being admitted to the club. He pleaded guilty in May to a misdemeanor and received probation.
The man reportedly told officers he was sleeping when an unknown person approached him and struck him in the face several times.
After checking security cameras and interviewing the alleged victim several times, UWPD said it is still unclear what happened.
Program will process some citations in municipal instead of county court, reducing cost to students.
Six instruments worth $28,000, including a $10,000 violin, have been stolen from lockers inside a University of Wisconsin-Madison campus building, police said.
Samantha Carter felt “utter disbelief” at what she saw on Sunday afternoon in the basement of the Humanities Building on North Park Street: The padlock on the locker in which she had stored her violin for the past four years as a music student at UW-Madison was missing.
Samantha Carter said she was “dumbfounded,” when she discovered her violin missing from her locker. She said her violin is worth about $10,000.
he UW-Madison Police Department is investigating reports of burglaries at the Humanities building on campus. In all instances, musical instruments were stolen from the basement of the building.
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department investigates reports of nearly $30,000 worth of stolen instruments, one music student is hoping for the return of her beloved violin.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison employee died from injuries he suffered when he fell while working on campus Saturday.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say a school employee has died from injuries sustained from a fall while working on campus on Nov. 30.
Marc Lovicott, communications director for the University of Wisconsin Police Department, said a flute, violin and cello were among the six instruments taken.
The new rule is part of a pilot program aimed at streamlining how UW-Madison Police ticket on and off-campus students.
Starting soon, some UW-Madison students who get cited by campus police for underage drinking or having a fake ID will have less expensive tickets to pay.
UW-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman and officers reiterated the fact their main goal will still be safety and education, not enforcement.
malfunctioning “Exit” sign triggered the fire alarms inside Witte Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday, causing the building to be evacuated, according to fire officials.
Langdon neighborhood officer left MPD ahead of scheduled reassignment in January because of lack of funding, support
The concerns today about UW intervention are reflected in the external review report on UW’s Fraternity and Sorority Life conducted in the spring semester of 2019. Similar sentiments about UW’s lack of connection to the Greek community were prominent themes throughout the report.
“When I started to find out more about the politics, how charges were being issued in our community, how certain decisions were being made, I ultimately couldn’t believe in some of those things anymore and had to make the decision to step down,” Figueroa said.
Yu Chen, 43, of Madison, died on May 31 when he was struck by a UW Lifesaving Station boat while he was windsurfing.
The family of a windsurfer killed in a collision with a University of Wisconsin Lifesaving boat has settled a lawsuit with the state.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says it has already taken measures to combat sexual assault, but some students say the school can do more to protect them.
