Suspect in Gymnast’s Killing Identified as Former Wrestler
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University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Whitewater PoliceA 23-year-old Loves Park, Illinois man was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater national title-winning gymnast Kara Welsh, 21, on Saturday, according to police. Police wrote in a statement that on Friday, they responded to a report of an “individual who had suffered a gunshot wound,” adding “upon arrival, officers found a deceased 21-year-old female who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds.” Investigators “determined that leading up to the shooting, an altercation had occurred between the two” and “the male was detained.”The man was identified as Chad T. Richards by Whitewater police in a Facebook post on Tuesday, a former wrester at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, reported 620WTMJ. Police said that they have “forwarded the following charges 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.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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