UW-Madison alum Gabriel Lerner, 27, was found slain in the U.S. Virgin Islands Wednesday after his reported disappearance Oct. 27, according to the Associated Press.
Lerner, of Milwaukee, had recently moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands to take a job as a clerk for a Superior Court judge in the western part of the island.
Island police said they found Lerner's car Tuesday and chased it until the vehicle crashed into a police cruiser. The men inside the car, Devon Frett, 22, and a 17-year-old whose name was not released, fled into a nearby wooded area. Two hours after the crash, police found the men and arrested them on charges of murder, robbery and kidnapping. The two suspects were held without bail.
Lerner received an undergraduate degree from UW-Madison and received his law degree from Georgetown University Law School.
