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Four dead after Middleton, south side shootings

forest ridge: A woman and a girl were found dead at the Forest Ridge apartments.

Four dead after Middleton, south side shootings

Two women and two girls were fatally shot Thursday evening in separate locations in Madison and Middleton, according to a Madison police report.

The report said police suspect Tyrone Adair, 38, in both shootings. It said Adair is still at large, ""armed and dangerous"" and driving a silver GMC Acadia. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, he is described as black, 5'10"" and 175 pounds with brown eyes.

At about 6 p.m., police were called when the first two victims, a woman and girl, were found in a vehicle parked in the garage of their home on the 6800 block of Park Edge Drive, about five miles southwest of the UW-Madison campus. 

Another woman and girl were then found fatally shot in a car in the parking lot of the Forest Ridge Apartments on Branch Street in Middleton. 

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According to Madison court records, Adair had been involved in two paternity cases in 2008, one involving a woman located on the 6800 block of Park Edge Drive and the other with a woman who lived in Middleton. In 2000, Adair was convicted of battery. In 2008, he was listed as living on Squire Circle in Middleton, about 10 minutes from the site of the second shooting. 

Madison Police Department Sgt. Rahim Rahaman could not confirm the ages of the victims or how the police came to suspect Adair in the shootings.

Chris Hilbelink said he was in his Forest Ridge apartments overlooking the parking lot during the incident. He also said he didn't hear anything suspicious.

""[The police] just asked if we'd seen anyone suspicious. They didn't tell us about any murders … They took one car away on a tow truck, and it had red tape over the back window that looked like it had been peeled off.""

Anyone with information on the shootings, or who sees Adair's Acadia, which police say has a ""342-EBL"" Wisconsin license plate, should call 911 immediately.

 

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