Posted on 09/19/2018 9:50:11 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Police and multiple ambulances were sent Wednesday morning to a Middleton office building on reports of an active shooter in the building, authorities reported.
The 911 Communications Center said at about 10:30 a.m. that the shooter was at 1850 Deming Way, which houses companies that include Esker Inc. and WTS Paradigm. State Journal reporter Dean Mosiman said from the scene said there were at least 40 police squad cars and ambulances from multiple jurisdictions outside the building.
Police have set up a perimeter around the building, Mosiman reported. More officers were continuing to arrive wearing bulletproof vests around 11 a.m. and FBI agents were on the scene.
The Middleton Police Department issued an alert at 11:15 a.m., advising people in buildings in the area to lock doors, stay inside and shelter in place until further notice.
People are being taken out of the building by police to the Hilton Garden Inn, 1801 Deming Way, which is on lockdown.
The perimeter has been expanded around the building, with police moving people away from the yellow police tape.
Mosiman said one woman was taken out of the building screaming, saying it was "a devastating loss." She was being held up by another person.
The Dane County Medical Examiner's Office said nobody from the office has been sent to the scene as of 11:10 a.m. The medical examiner is called in if there are fatalities.
Authorities were asking people to avoid the area.
Employees at another building close to the shooting site said they saw people running out of the building where the shooting was reported. Andrew King, an employee at TrafficCast, 1800 Deming Way, said he saw a man carrying a handgun inside the 1850 Deming Way building.
"I saw a dude walking with a gun inside the building," King said. "He was just walking with it, and I didn't see any shooting."
A hotel inside the police perimeter, the Marriot Residence Inn, had about 35 to 40 people milling about the entrance, but it wasn't known if the people had come from the building where the shooting took place.
Illegals? H1B?
4 taken to UW Hospital. Shooter in custody.
Would it not be easier for all to simply put in in the body or title?☺
Yes, one can cipher out the location, and in this case it’s not too difficult to do so. But it still baffles me that in The Year of Our Lord 2018, near the end of the second decade of the 21st century and a generation after Al Gore invented the internet, that so many publications do not identify their location with a banner or informational box on every story and webpage. A lot of the print media, even publications that are oriented to an online presence, make themselves unnecessarily obscure. If they’re that stupid, they deserve to die.
I now know what “intellectual laziness” is. And reading comprehension.
Shooter down.
She said she quick posted it because she was on the fly doing something.
Missed that too I guess.
What the heck? I mean, it’s in large print at the bottom of the article. If you read the article, you would see the byline...
Uh, as I pointed out to the other poster, if you had read the article, you would have seen the author’s info right there. The only way one could avoid knowing that this was from Madison, WI would be if one didn’t read the article at all.
I didn’t miss it. I was referring to the article and or title. Not comments below that I never read. In any event, this looks like this story is all over but the investigation!
That’s all folks!
Situation contained, 3 taken away in ambulances. Paradigm Software attacked - Milwaukee Sentinel and their twitter.
"...Madison..."
US:Wisconsin has been in the “topics” just below the article since it was posted. It’s an FR thing.
Didn't mention what state they're in huh?
Yes, I read the article and in this case I was able to see where it was from. But that’s not always the case. My point is that in the age of the internet, basic identifying information should be right up front on every page, and especially on the first page. My other pet peeve is that articles are often undated. Stuff lives forever on the internet, and ancient information keeps surfacing without any clue as to when it was last updated. There are some simple disciplines that writers, editors and publications should adopt for online purposes.
(.....speaking as a newspaper Brenda Starr who labored back in the dinosaurian days of trained, fair journalism).
Leni
Yeah. Whatever.
I still don’t get what you’re carping about! It has the date and source immediately under the title:
“Update: Gunman in Middleton workplace shooting is dead; three injured, one critically
BILL NOVAK, BARRY ADAMS and DEAN MOSIMAN Wisconsin State Journal 48 min ago”
I mean, you can’t even read the title on this article without seeing that it’s from the Wisconsin State Journal, and from today.
No doubt the way the Kavanaugh accuser is being treated set the perp into an outraged shooting frenzy.
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