Dane County deputy shoots, kills suspect 'in several weapons violations,' authorities say - Madison.com

A idiosyncratic suspected of committing “several weapons violations” successful caller days was changeable and killed by a Dane County Sheriff’s lawman Sunday day successful the colony of Oregon, authorities said.

At astir 11 a.m., the Dane County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 telephone astir a weapons usurpation connected Jefferson Street successful Oregon, and deputies and assisting agencies began “actively” searching for a fishy successful the area, Sheriff Kalvin Barrett said.

The suspect, who was alleged to person committed “several weapons violations” successful caller days, was believed to beryllium successful the 5200 artifact of County Road CC, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice, which released much details connected the incidental precocious Sunday.

Officials acceptable up a perimeter successful the area, and the fishy fled connected foot, the DOJ said. A lawman made interaction with the fishy astatine astir 3:15 p.m. and fired astatine the person, who died astatine the scene.

Authorities had not released the sanction of the idiosyncratic killed oregon the deputy, who has been placed connected permission portion the DOJ investigates the shooting.

A firearm was located astatine the scene, the DOJ said.

Barrett took nary questions astatine a briefing extracurricular a adjacent religion conscionable aft 7 p.m., and said the DOJ’s Division of Criminal Investigations would beryllium releasing further information.

The sanction of the idiosyncratic killed volition beryllium released by the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office aft household is notified, Barrett said.

Police were inactive connected the country precocious Sunday.

Just aft 4:30 p.m. Sunday, constabulary portion and squad cars were seen blocking disconnected a vicinity successful Oregon.

The incidental appeared to person occurred adjacent a cul-de-sac conscionable disconnected the 200 artifact of Bergamont Boulevard. Police portion and squad cars were seen done the area, and constabulary had blocked disconnected the entranceway to the vicinity astatine Eagle Drive, and besides had officers stationed on Jefferson Street, connected the different broadside of the property.

A achromatic structure could beryllium seen successful the backyard of the residences.

Several residents stood extracurricular their homes connected Eagle Drive portion constabulary worked to incorporate the scene. One household inactive had the Packers crippled playing connected a TV successful their store portion they observed the scene. Other neighbors successful the blocks beyond the incidental had emerged from their homes to spot what was happening.

Multiple neighbors reported seeing a aesculapian chopper onshore successful the country and permission astir the clip of the incident. The country is mostly residential.

Roberta Rusch, who lives a artifact distant from the country of the incident, called the incidental “unsettling.”

She had been buying with her girl successful Fitchburg during the time and returned location astir 4:15 p.m. It wasn’t until then, erstwhile she saw the exigency lights — which could beryllium seen from astir each sides of the spot — that she learned thing had happened.

“It’s specified a tiny town, and 2 events successful 1 weekend,” Rusch said, arsenic she walked her dog, Cooper, adjacent the scene.

This incidental comes 2 days aft an explosion astatine a adjacent duplex and aft an equipped robbery successful the area, though it was unclear if immoderate of the incidents were connected. On Sunday, Barrett declined to reply a question astir whether the equipped robbery was connected to Sunday’s shooting.

This is besides the second time this period a Dane County sheriff’s lawman has changeable and killed someone. On Oct. 13, Deputy Cody Woods fatally changeable 46-year-old Quantaze D. Campbell during an probe of a stolen conveyance extracurricular a Super 8 edifice successful Windsor. Woods has been placed connected paid permission pending a DOJ investigation.