Category: Crime and safety

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.

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.

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.

A pier in Lake Mendota just off the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union Terrance and crowded with between 60 and 80 people collapsed Monday afternoon, causing minor injuries to about two dozen people, police said.

Madison Police detectives on Monday were continuing an investigation into a brutal attack from over the weekend that left a University of Wisconsin-Madison student hospitalized in critical condition.

The Madison Police Department (MPD) is investigating a “brutal” attack that happened around 3:20 Sunday morning on the 500 block of W. Wilson Street. Police Chief Shon Barnes said in a press conference Saturday the female victim was transported to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Around 25 people were hurt after a pier collapsed at the Memorial Union Terrace on Labor Day.A UW-Madison Police Department official said the collapse happened around 3 p.m. The official said 60 to 80 people were on the pier at the time.

People living near the site of an early Sunday morning attack against a UW-Madison student are reevaluating what their security means for the months ahead.

A pier collapsed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace Monday afternoon, sending dozens of people into the water. The call for a water rescue came in for multiple area agencies at about 2:35 p.m. Monday.

In what’s believed to be record-setting heat, the UW-Madison Police Department announced 250 people suffered heat-related issues at the first Badger football game of the season.

Wisconsin police say that a female University of Wisconsin student was “severely beaten” in Madison early Sunday morning, prompting increased police presence in the area.

Nicole Mitchell, who was swimming nearby, said, “It was really scary. It made a really loud noise at first, and then it was basically a fight or flight response. Me and my friend, who I was swimming, treading water with, we swam as fast as he could back to the dock. Everyone was screaming, looking for their things, making sure their friends were okay.”

Police say a caller said they found a woman on the 500 block of W. Wilson St. who had been brutally attacked.

The Madison Police Department is investigating an assault which occurred late Sunday night near the intersection of W. Wilson Street and Bedford Street.

UWPD launched the safety resource app in August before campus welcomed back new and returning Badgers for the fall semester.

Multiple witnesses told The Daily Cardinal the pier was overcrowded prior to collapsing Monday afternoon.

Footage of the pier collapse was captured on camera by a bystander as up to 80 students and debris from the broken structure were suddenly swallowed by the water. One victim was hospitalized and others suffered scrapes and bruises during the incident at the Memorial Union Terrace. It is part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, on Lake Mendota.

The Madison Police Department is investigating a “brutal” attack of a female University of Wisconsin student on the 500 block of W. Wilson St. in Madison early Sunday morning, according to an MPD report.

The end section of the L-shaped dock at the Memorial Union on Lake Mendota collapsed around 2:30 p.m. Monday, sending about 60-80 students and members of the public into the water, according to the Madison Fire Department.

Scott C. Tolliver, 43, told U.S. District Judge William Conley he was sorry that he committed the robberies on April 15, 2022, at the McDonald’s restaurant on Regent Street and, about three hours later, at the Walgreens drug store on East Campus Drive.

A technology specialist for UW-Madison is accused of watching and downloading pornographic videos of young girls.

A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student who pleaded guilty in 2018 to multiple felony charges related to a series of sexual assaults of female students has been ordered committed in Minnesota as a sexually dangerous person.

Many students avoid using Lakeshore Path at night due to safety concerns. But is the path truly as dangerous as many believe?

The suspect accused of stealing security cameras from a fraternity house apparently did not put enough thought into the fact they could be rolling at the time.

A new app from the University of Wisconsin Police Dept. promises to offer safety and a little more piece of mind – and you don’t have to be a student or staff member to use it.