The victim, 21-year-old Kara Welsh from Plainfield, Illinois, was a gymnast going into her senior year at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, school officials said Saturday.
Sunday, September 1, 2024 1:11AMWHITEWATER, Wisc. --The shooting happened around 11:54 p.m. at an apartment in the 100 block of West Whitewater Street in Whitewater , Wisconsin , the Whitewater Police Department said.
A 21-year-old woman was allegedly shot multiple times by a male suspect who was known to her, police said. There was an physical altercation between the woman and the man inside the apartment before the shooting. Officers discovered the woman dead at the scene. The victim has been identified as Kara Welsh of Plainfield, Illinois, Whitewater police said.
Welsh was a gymnast going into her senior year at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, school chancellor Cory King said in a"It is with great sadness that we announce a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student has passed away. Kara Welsh, age 21, from Plainfield, Illinois, died in a shooting off campus on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024," the statement read in part.
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