Posted on 03/12/2007 12:21:37 PM PDT by flashbunny
Woman killed in police station
No one in building in Dodge County as she sought refuge
By MEG JONES mjones@journalsentinel.com
Posted: March 11, 2007
A 35-year-old woman was killed inside the Fox Lake Police Department on Sunday afternoon as she frantically tried to flee her husband, authorities said.
A pedestrian called 911 around 4:45 p.m. after seeing a man ram his car into the woman's car in the parking lot of the Fox Lake municipal building, according to the Dodge County Sheriff's Department.
The woman, whose name was not released by authorities Sunday night, ran from her car and fled into the building as her husband pursued her inside, the department reported.
By the time a Fox Lake police officer arrived, the 40-year-old husband was getting back into his car, authorities said. There was no sign of the woman.
The husband was uncooperative with the police officer, who used a Taser on him.
The man managed to get away and flee in his vehicle but ran off the road about a mile from the police station, where he was taken into custody for fleeing an officer.
Sheriff's deputies found the woman in the lobby area of the municipal building, which includes the Fox Lake police station.
She was taken to Beaver Dam Community Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
An autopsy was scheduled for this morning.
No one was in the building at the time the woman ran inside to seek refuge. The Dodge County Sheriff's Department handles dispatching duties for the small Fox Lake Police Department on weekends.
The couple recently moved to the Fond du Lac-Waupun area from Superior.
This woman went right to the police station and was killed there. She had to wait for a police officer to arrive at the police station. And people are supposed to wait for the police to get their and protect after they call 911?
A pity she wasn't armed ... oh wait, Wisconsin ... she was dead meat from the start.
No police on duty at 4:45 p.m. in the late afternoon. Wow!
She obviously didn't but I wonder if the husband knew that they were closed on weekends and that the County covered. If he thought police were in the building, why would he have followed her inside?
You've got a valid question that makes a lot of sense.
After reading that a deputy tasered him and he still got away, i doubt "thinking" or "knowing" had or probably ever had anything to do with this jerk.
Dial 911 and die.
this would be the case at many small-town departments.
A few years back in my area, the 911 Operator got a frantic call around 6am from a woman who was driving her car. She was being followed at a high rate of speed by her husband who was armed with a shotgun and trying to kill her.
The 911 operator got her location and alerted police officers. The nearest police officer was a couple of miles away and told the operator to have the woman pull into the quick-stop store at an intersection up ahead where he was waiting and he'd intercept the husband.
The woman finally arrived at the parking lot and pulled in screeching to a halt next to the cop. The husband, seeing the cop, kept going. The cop took a second to make sure she was okay and headed off in pursuit of the husband. With his view of the intersection blocked by the store, little did the cop realize that the husband had made a quick right turn at the intersection after the quick-stop store and pulled around into the parking lot from the side road just as the cop pulled onto the main road and sped off, disappearing into the dark.
The husband pulled up alongside the wife, leveled the shotgun at her and pulled th trigger, killing her instantly. He then sped off back to the house where he held up for another three or four more hours until he finally gave himself up.
The husband's execution is currently being held up in NC due to the AMA's issues with having physician assistance in administering death sentences.
She thought the government would protect her, right up until the moment she was dead.
She should have driven to Dunkin Doughnuts.
That's why we need to bring back the guillotine.
Body over there, head in a basket. Yep, He's dead.
No AMA needed.
I read somewhere that it is actually legal to OPENLY carry a firearm in Wisconsin but no one does because anyone who dares to is arrested for "disturbing the peace" (scaring people) and their weapon is confiscated.
Not necessarily. He would have gotten away if he had not been reported.
Doughnut break.
Should've driven to the donut shop.
After being tazered? hmmmmm....
They were probably all out generating revenue for the city. Writing speeding tickets.
HUH?
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