BELOIT, Wis. — Beloit police have taken four people into custody for their alleged involvement in a string of weekend shootings that left one dead and three others injured.
During a Monday morning news conference, Beloit Police Chief Andre Sayles said police responded Friday night to the 1800 block of Fayette Avenue for a report of a shooting. When they arrived officers found a 20-year-old man who had been shot multiple times. He was taken to a local hospital where he later died.
As officers were investigating the Fayette Avenue shooting, they got a report of another shooting in the 600 block of Woodward Avenue around 11 p.m. When officers arrived, they found a 25-year-old woman with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
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Police said the two Friday shootings were related.
On Saturday, Beloit police responded to yet another shooting that left two people, a 27-year-old woman and a 48-year-old man, with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
Police responded to the 1600 block of Dewey Avenue around 7:30 p.m. As officers were investigating, police spotted the suspect vehicle. Police chased after the suspects and eventually took four men into custody. One suspect escaped.
Sayles identified the men as 21-year-old Raymond Gosha, 23-year-old Steve Brock, 22-year-old Garrett Rocha and 19-year-old Tarious Armstrong.
Gosha was arrested on three counts of attempted homicide as party to a crime, tentative charges of felon in possession of a firearm, possession with intent to deliver, possession of cocaine, resisting arrest and felony bail jumping.
Brock was arrested on three counts of attempted homicide as a party to a crime and felon in possession of a firearm.
Rocha was arrested on three tentative counts of attempted homicide as a party to a crime and felon in possession of a firearm.
Armstrong was arrested on three counts of attempted homicide as a party to a crime.
In addition to the three weekend shootings, police also responded to six additional shots fired calls, Sayles said.
Anyone with information bout the shootings is asked to call the Beloit Police Department at 608-364-6801 or Beloit Area Crime Stoppers.
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