BELOIT POLICE DEPARTMENT Norm Jacobs Acting Chief of Police 100 State Street Beloit, WI 53511
Business: (608) 364-6801 Administration: (608) 364-6807 Facsimile: (608) 364-6608
PRESS RELEASE Date:11/24/09 3:15 PM For Additional Information Contact:
Captain William Tyler (608) 364-6865
BELOIT, WISCONSIN – Beloit Police investigate a daytime shooting. On 11/23/09 at 12:57 pm police dispatchers received telephone calls of residents hearing multiple gunshots near the intersection of Porter and Randall in Beloit. Seconds later, there was a report of a vehicle involved in a parking lot crash near Porter and Copeland Avenue. Police arrived in the area to find a 22 year old subject of a shooting crashed in the parking lot of Merrill Elementary School. The school was immediately locked down by school officials. The person in the crashed vehicle was transported to Beloit Memorial Hospital by ambulance where he was pronounced dead. The coroner is responding to the hospital. Police are on the scene of this crash gathering evidence. A second person was transported from the area of Porter and Randall to the Beloit Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening gun shot wounds. Evidence of gunfire was found on Randall in the street. Police are in this area securing evidence of this incident. The connection between the person in the vehicle and the pedestrian are not known. Detectives and patrol officers are in the area of Porter and Randall talking with witnesses to the incident. If anyone has information about this incident they can call the Beloit Police Department Detective Bureau at 364-6800 or Crime Stoppers at 362-7463. Multiple agencies were involved with the initial call and subsequent needs to secure scenes, gather evidence and maintain order. Units from the jurisdictions of Beloit Township and the Rock County Sheriff’s Department assisted during the first few hours of this call. All Beloit Police resources on first and second shifts are being used for this incident. More information will be available on 11/25/09 after notification of relatives to the victim. Pursuant to the directive of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, as found in Supreme Court Rule 20:3:6 Trial Publicity, you are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. www.ci.beloit.wi.us