MADISON, Wis. – Madison police said a 29-year-old person is dead after a shooting early Tuesday morning.
Police were called to the scene of a shooting on the 2000 block of Adderbury Lane around 3:15 a.m. where they found a man with an apparent gun shot wound inside a car.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said they found at least a dozen shell casings at the scene.
“It does appear the gunfire centered on the person behind the wheel and the car,” Koval said. “But this does not appear to be some random act. This was definitely targeted.”
Koval said when officers arrived, they attempted to perform life-saving measures on the victim, but were unsuccessful.
“We have a young victim that was gunned down in an otherwise sedate, nice neighborhood,” Koval said.
Koval said the shooting was Madison’s 8th homicide of the year. Koval said the victim was an African-American man, and that no one is in custody in connection with the shooting.
Despite multiple reports of gunshots, Koval does not think any buildings nearby the shooting suffered any damage. However, officers will canvass the neighborhood to determine if bullets hit any homes.
A tent was erected over the body following the shooting, but remained on the scene at 6:30 a.m. Koval said he expect the body to be taken by the medical examiner once all forensic evidence is removed.
Koval said that Madison remains a very safe town by most standards, but the amount of homicides in 2017 is an indication of the problems of gun violence that are happening nationwide.
“I don’t see any way to stop the flow of gun violence unless we do something radically different,” Koval said. “We have to get the point where we stop erecting tents around corpses, We have to eliminate the perception that Madison is unsafe.”
A neighborhood meeting about recent violence in the neighborhood is scheduled for Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Elver Park Neighborhood Center at 1201 McKenna Boulevard.
