An Illinois man is expected to be charged in the fatal shooting of Kara Welsh, a national gymnastics champion, in an apartment near the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus, police said.
Welsh, a 21-year-old student from Plainfield, was killed Friday night, Whitewater police said. On Tuesday, the Whitewater Police Department forwarded the following charges for Chad Richards, 23, to the Walworth County District Attorney’s Office: First-degree intentional homicide, endangering safety by the use of a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct while armed.Richards, of Love's Park, Illinois, was arrested at the scene of the shooting Friday.
Welsh was a member of the Warhawk gymnastics team and last year she took the individual national title on vault at the NCAA Division III championships, the university said in a statement."We know the news of Kara's death is heartbreaking for our close-knit university community. It is a time when we are all called upon to support one another, to process, and to grieve," UW-Whitewater Chancellor Corey King said. The campus is about 50 miles west of Milwaukee.
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