Victim shot four times after stealing squad car in Wisconsin
By Lee Sensenbrenner
June 15, 2004
Madison police are still keeping secret the identity of a man who they say assaulted a woman outside her home, attacked police officers and stole a squad car before he came under police gunfire.
The department is also not yet disclosing the identity of the two female officers who they say first dealt with the 28-year-old man. The first officer shot him with a Taser before she was attacked and had her car stolen; the second shot the man with her pistol after he crashed the squad car into a tree on Williamson Street and came out fighting.
Television News 3 reported that the man had been shot four times, and a neighbor told The Capital Times Monday that he thought he heard four shots, but police Public Information Officer Larry Kamholz would not confirm that this morning. The man remained in serious condition today at University Hospital, where he underwent surgery Monday.
The man apparently sustained and fought through an incredible amount of physical trauma as he attacked his victim and then police at around 4:30 a.m. Monday.
First he was hit by a Taser. Then, after accelerating hard for a little more than a block, he ran squarely into a large tree, leaving no sign of skid marks. Police think he faced the collision without a seat belt.
He came out of the car fighting and was shot multiple times. And even after that, while he was being taken by ambulance to University Hospital, he continued to attack police officers and paramedics.