MADISON, Wis. — Police in Madison are investigating a shots fired incident that happened Wednesday afternoon on the city’s southwest side.
In an incident report Friday afternoon, police said officers were called to the intersection of Freeport and Reetz roads around 1:20 p.m. Witnesses reportedly told police they saw someone shooting from the sunroof of a vehicle toward another vehicle.
Officers found two shell casings at the scene.
A short time later, police said a 17-year-old boy showed up at a hospital with a gunshot wound. The release did not detail the extent of the boy’s injuries or say for sure whether he was shot during the incident on Reetz Road.
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During a news conference Thursday afternoon, police said they were investigating whether a group of five teens who allegedly crashed a stolen car on the Beltline Wednesday night before running to a nearby movie theater were connected to a shots fired incident on Reetz Road earlier in the day on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear if the incident police referred to during the news conference was the one detailed in the release published Friday.
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