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.
So, last I heard on the radio on the drive back home: 4 in hospital, injured, not dead.
Shooter was shot by police; He’s Dead, Jim.
4pm news conference with the police.
Thanks!
Thanks, Hon. Shooter’s dead, if you didn’t hear.
Correction:
Middleton was it’s own town before Madison has tried to SWALLOW it whole
I was born in Madison, lived until 7 in Maple Bluff on Farwell Drive, and moved to a farm on Old Sauk Rd in Middleton. I attended Middleton grade school for 8th grade, and spent 4 years at Middleton High School, graduating in 1957. I do NOT recognize the Deming Way address, but I have een gone from Wisconsin since 1964.
All 3 of my brothers, many nieces & nephews still live there.
Kudos, agree.
You know what? That just pisses me off. If I am in a deadly accident, and the choice is either destroy my expensive John Elliot jeans and my Brioni shirt, or let me die.... just let me die.
Well, of course you have your Fashion Icon Emergency Alert (FIEA) ID on, right? LOL!
Updated info, but they’re still not releasing the name of the shooter. Odd. (Well, from what we have learned of these things, not really!)
https://madison.com/news/local/crime/article_d3b29b73-e37b-5a06-9350-05ffd5efb8ee.html
So, the news that it was a woman shooter is not true?
There’s a shooting TODAY in Maryland that has a female shooter.
The shooting above happened yesterday in Middleton, WI. Pretty sure it was a male shooter - he’s dead.
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