Police said the incident occurred at around 2:45 a.m. on Oct. 13 in the 100 block of North Mills Street. The person allegedly entered the apartment, scared residents and caused a disturbance.
As officers began to search for the man, multiple resources were used to assist, including a BadgerSAFE alert at 8:50 p.m. that read: Off Campus Alert Urgent – Police continue to search for the suspect in the Langdon area. Stay inside.
During their time on campus, about one in six students at UW-Madison will experience sexual assault, according to Director of Survivor Services Dr. Molly Caradonna. Most students will know someone who has experienced sexual assault or rape, Caradonna added.
Last October, Raichik posted a video of Dr. Katherine Gast, co-director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s UW Health gender services program, describing gender-affirming operations. The backlash was swift, with thousands of Twitter accounts sharing the post, including Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
UW-Madison officials said Tuesday that claims recently made on social media and shared by conservative commentator and former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch about antisemitic protests outside UW Hillel were “significantly exaggerated.”
The university referenced allegations swirling on social media in a statement Tuesday. Radio and TV Host Dana Loesch reported claims in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, of someone having to be escorted into Hillel because supporters of Hamas were rallying outside the building, screaming threats and cutting an Israeli flag with scissors.
The claim, amplified by conservative commentators like Dana Loesch, went viral on Twitter. UW-Madison and UWPD said the events described within were exaggerated.
Of the 60 people ejected, 28 were UW students, and 20 of the 24 who were arrested were UW students, police said in a statement detailing the numbers.
Brandon Thompson, the 26-year-old charged with attacking and sexually assaulting a University of Wisconsin-Madison student last month, has pleaded not guilty to all of his charges.
During his arraignment, Brandon Thompson had a not guilty plea entered on his behalf by the Dane Co. court to first-degree sexual assault, first degree reckless injury, and strangulation and suffocation. Thompson, who is being held on a $1,000,000 bond, is due to return to court on December 1 for a status conference hearing.
UW-Madison police reported that 43 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 28 people were arrested during Saturday’s game between the Badgers and Iowa.
UW-Madison police reported that 42 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 26 people were arrested during Saturday’s game between the Badgers and Rutgers.
Students say they know UWPD has certain protocols in place but it’s overwhelming to think officers can’t be all over campus at once. “Especially here on this campus it’s just so big,” student Lavneet Chawla said. “You never know who could have a firearm on them.”
The report, released Friday, Sept. 29, showed 25 reported on-campus rapes in 2022, with 16 in student housing. There were 19 reported on-campus rapes in 2021 and nine in 2020.
Officers responded to the area of Langdon and Carroll streets about 12:10 a.m. Sunday on a report of an unconscious man in the road after a fight. Police found the man, who in and out of consciousness with substantial injuries, officer Ryan Kimberley said in a statement.
Authorities said Salgado-Arroyo and another man tackled the 20-year-old student as she walked home on West Dayton Street in 2011. They sexually assaulted her until a man on his balcony heard her screams, yelled out and the attackers ran off.
In the summer months, the churn of leases starting and ending and the steady stream of people relocating in the city and starting classes at UW-Madison entice opportunistic criminals, many of whom, Becker says, are serial offenders also participating in other types of theft and drug crime.
A Madison man accused in 2020 of committing a rape nine years earlier near the UW-Madison campus was found guilty Wednesday after a jury trial lasting just over a day.
Last week, the Transportation Commission voted to approve nine painting projects around campus.
UWPD explained its officers were providing support at speaking events on Tuesday at Library Mall when someone confronted a public speaker. Police stated that the suspect grabbed the speaker’s microphone card and wouldn’t let go of it, despite officers asking the person to cooperate and let go of the cord several times.
“We understand that alcohol consumption is going to happen,” Kirchman said, “Us standing here and saying ‘don’t do it,’ that is not going to solve anything … So instead [we consider], what can we do to help affect behaviors so that people are more safe, because that’s the more important thing.”
Three people contacted by police at Saturday’s football game had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20% or higher. Two people were conveyed to detox. The legal limit to drive in Wisconsin is 0.08%.
A total of 20 people were cited and ejected during the game, all of them UW students, for issues including entering the field, throwing hard objects and disorderly conduct. Officers issued 17 citations for underage drinking.
A GoFundMe that was set up to support a UW-Madison student who was physically and sexually assaulted downtown last week has surpassed $10,000 in less than 24 hours.
The RCC Sexual Violence Resource Center created a GoFundMe stating the student is still fighting for her life in the hospital. Organizer Dana Pellebon said the goal is to help the survivor and her family focus on healing rather than worrying about bills during her recovery. Pellebon said crime victim insurance could eventually cover some costs, but immediately after a sexual assault or rape, it is hard for the survivor to work while they try to recover from a traumatizing event.
Fund has raised over $15,000 in 24 hours.
App services include “FriendWalk,” off-campus alerts.
The woman was walking home from a friend’s house when investigators maintain Brandon Thompson, 26, attacked her on West Wilson Street near Bedford Street.
The man accused of sexually and physically assaulting a UW-Madison student over the weekend was formally charged and given a $1 million cash bond Thursday.
A criminal complaint filed Thursday in Dane County provides a clearer timeline in what prosecutors called “one of the most horrific sexual assaults in recent memory.”
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.
The man charged in a brutal and random rape of a UW-Madison student last weekend told police that he “saw red” before the attack and remembered hitting the woman repeatedly but could not be sure that he sexually assaulted her, according to a criminal complaint.
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.
A man was arrested Wednesday morning in a brutal assault that took place near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus early Sunday morning.
The man who allegedly attacked a female UW-Madison student Downtown early Sunday remained at the scene and pretended to be a witness, Madison police said.
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.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was critically injured in a seemingly random attack near campus is expected to survive but will likely have a long road to recovery.
Many of UW-Madison’s leaders, including Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin, Provost Charles Isbell, Jr., and Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Lori Reesor spoke about the attack, which resulted in a student being hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, during the university’s convocation to incoming students Tuesday afternoon.
The pier, which opened in 2013, has 330 feet of boardwalk and space to dock 17 boats to a series of floating piers. But the main pier structure, its walkway made of wood from the massaranduba tree, native to Central and South America, connects the floating docks to land and is anchored by 21 massive steel columns, each with a cone to prevent the columns from being crushed by lake ice.
“We are holding the student and her family in our hearts at this terrible moment, and I hope that you will as well,” Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said. “You may also be wondering if you can feel safe here — the answer is mostly yes, Madison is generally quite a safe city. But no place is completely safe, including Madison, and I so wish it were otherwise.”
The Madison Police Department is still searching for the perpetrator of a violent sexual and physical assault on a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was brutally attacked downtown in the predawn hours Sunday.
The Labor Day collapse of a pier just off the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union Terrace wasn’t the first time a UW pier has plunged people into Lake Mendota.
Students’ usual feelings of excitement toward the start of the school year have been marred by anxiety after an unknown number of assailants brutally attacked a University of Wisconsin-Madison student downtown Sunday.
