A pair of car-to-car shootings were reported within two hours of each other on Sunday in an East Side neighborhood, Madison police reported.
Shortly after 4:30 p.m., police were called to the 100 block of Jackson Street on reports of shots fired and vehicles fleeing the area, Lt. Harrison Zanders said in a statement.
Investigators were told that two vehicles were pursuing each other when shots were heard, Zanders said.
Officers located two shell casings, and confirmed property damage to a nearby unoccupied garage, but no injuries were reported, Zanders said.
Shortly after 6:30 p.m., police were called to East Washington Avenue at First Street on reports of shots fired, Zanders said in a statement.
Investigators were told that occupants of a red sedan were shooting at an occupied light-colored sedan. Both vehicles were gone before officers arrived, but the red sedan later was located by police unoccupied near Troy Drive at Northport Drive, Zanders said.
Officer found two shell casings in the road, but there were no reports of injuries or property damage, Zanders said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014 or P3Tips.com.
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Althea Bernstein, an 18-year-old biracial woman, told police she stopped her vehicle at the intersection of West Gorham Street and State Street at about 1 a.m. when she was approached by four white men, one of whom yelled a racial epithet.
At the time, Madison police were in a standoff in another part of Downtown with protesters after some of them tore down two statues, assaulted a state senator and threw an explosive device into the City-County Building.
No probation or additional jail ordered for teen in accidental shooting of friend
A woman who accidentally shot a friend in the face while playing with his gun last year will not have to serve any additional time in jail and can ask to have her felony conviction expunged once she pays court costs and restitution, a judge decided Monday.
Dane County Circuit Judge John Hyland said Kennedy L. DeNoble, 18, of Sun Prairie, who was 17 when she shot Gregory S. Hampton Jr. while playing with his gun at his Madison apartment, would likely not benefit from supervision under probation, as sought by Assistant District Attorney Dan Hess. Hess had also sought six months in jail as a condition of DeNoble’s probation.
Middleton Sport Bowl owners sentenced to prison for tax evasion
A husband and wife who own a Middleton bowling alley will each spend six months in federal prison for failing to report income from cash skimmed from the proceeds of video gambling machines that were on their premises.
U.S. District Judge James Peterson said he believes Dudley and Cherie Hellenbrand, owners of the Middleton Sport Bowl, “are decent people, but they were very good and very committed in compartmentalizing an aspect of their lives in which they worked by a different set of rules than govern their conduct in everyday activities.”
Officials make arrests, file charges related to unrest roiling Downtown Madison
Prosecutors filed several charges Friday related to recent unrest Downtown, including against a Madison activist whose arrest Tuesday triggered a night of violence and vandalism at the state Capitol.
Devonere Johnson, also known as Yeshua Musa, was charged with extortion in U.S. District Court in Madison for allegedly demanding money and free food and drinks in exchange for sparing Downtown businesses from vandalism.
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Johnson was arrested following a struggle with Madison police outside The Coopers Tavern on Capitol Square after bringing a baseball bat and a megaphone into the restaurant and yelling at customers.
His arrest triggered a violent and destructive night of civil unrest during which protesters tore down statues representing Wisconsin’s “Forward” motto and a Union Civil War colonel at the state Capitol, assaulted a state senator and set a small fire in the City-County Building.
UPDATE: 3 injured in 5 shooting incidents in Madison, Sun Prairie, police say
Police said they determined a third person was injured in five shooting incidents in Madison and Sun Prairie from Wednesday afternoon to early Thursday morning.
The series of shootings started about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, with officers called to the area of Third Avenue at Center Street on Madison's South Side for reports of shots fired, Madison police Lt. Harrison Zanders said in a statement.
Officers were told that a person had been shot but had left the scene. Shortly afterward, police learned a man in his late 20s had arrived at a local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds that were not life threatening, Zanders said.
Woman jumps from Beltline bridge into Yahara River following police standoff
A 30-year-old woman pulled to the side of the Beltline Highway at about 1:15 a.m. on Saturday and jumped into the Yahara River following a long standoff with police.
A Monona police officer patrolling the Beltline and saw the woman's vehicle on a shoulder of the highway and stopped to help because he believed it was disabled, according to a new release from the Monona Police Department.
She had stopped on the Yahara River Bridge, which crosses the river close to where it flows into Lake Waubesa.
Police arrest 19-year-old woman for allegedly looting, damaging State Street businesses
A young woman was arrested Friday morning for allegedly looting and vandalizing businesses on State Street after protests in Madison on the night of May 30, police say.
Gabrielle M. Kokesh, 19, of Waunakee, is accused of being involved in looting August, a clothing retailer at 414 State St., according to a Madison Police Department news release. She is also accused of kicking in a window of Power Nine Games at 341 State St., the act of which was reportedly caught on video.
Kokesh was booked into Dane County Jail on charges of burglary and criminal damage to property.
2 women shaken by man pointing gun at 1 woman’s head on Near West Side, Madison police say
Two women were left badly shaken early Friday morning after a man came out of the shadows on the Near West Side and pointed a gun at the head of one of them, Madison police reported.
The 21-year-old women were walking together on Mendota Court shortly before 2:30 a.m. when the armed man confronted them, police spokesman Joel DeSpain said in a statement.
2 die in fiery crash fleeing police traffic stop in Sun Prairie, authorities say
Two people were killed in a fiery crash fleeing a police traffic stop in Sun Prairie on Friday morning, authorities said.
The state Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation said in a statement it was investigating the officer-involved deaths along with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office.
Sun Prairie police made a traffic stop on Beech Street near Davison Drive and as police approached the stopped vehicle on foot, it drove off at a high rate of speed, crashing and catching fire about three blocks away on Ruby Lane near the intersection of Main Street, DCI said.
Madison man arrested after Madison woman dies after apparently jumping from moving vehicle, authorities say
A Madison man was arrested on a tentative charge of drunken driving after a Madison woman died after apparently jumping from a vehicle he was driving early Sunday morning in Columbia County, authorities reported.
Columbia County Sheriff Roger Brandner said in a statement that it received a 911 call about 4 a.m. advising that a female had jumped from a moving vehicle near N9371 Highway AA in the town of Lewiston.
While deputies were headed to that location, they received new information that the female was being transported by a private vehicle to Divine Savior Hospital in Portage, Brandner said.
Jeff Richgels
Online Reporter/Producer for Wisconsin State Journal
