Suspect arrested in killing of gymnastics champion at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

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Suspect arrested in killing of gymnastics champion at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a national gymnastics champion in an apartment near the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus. Whitewater police say Kara Welsh, a 21-year-old student at the school, was killed Friday and the 23-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene that night.

WHITEWATER, Wis. — A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a national gymnastics champion in an apartment near the University of Wisconsin -Whitewater campus, police said.

In a news release posted online Saturday, police did not describe what led to the shooting, except to say that Welsh and the suspect knew each other and that there had been an altercation between the two.

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