BELOIT POLICE DEPARTMENT

Norm Jacobs Business: (608) 364-6801

Acting Chief of Police Administration: (608) 364-6807
100 State Street Facsimile: (608) 364-6608
Beloit, WI 53511

PRESS RELEASE

Date:11/24/09 3:15 PM
For Additional Information Contact: Captain William Tyler (608) 364-6865

BELOIT, WISCONSIN – Beloit Police investigate a daytime shooting.

On 11/23/09 at 12:57 pm police dispatchers received telephone calls of residents hearing multiple
gunshots near the intersection of Porter and Randall in Beloit. Seconds later, there was a report of a
vehicle involved in a parking lot crash near Porter and Copeland Avenue.

Police arrived in the area to find a 22 year old subject of a shooting crashed in the parking lot of Merrill
Elementary School. The school was immediately locked down by school officials. The person in the
crashed vehicle was transported to Beloit Memorial Hospital by ambulance where he was pronounced
dead. The coroner is responding to the hospital. Police are on the scene of this crash gathering
evidence.

A second person was transported from the area of Porter and Randall to the Beloit Memorial Hospital
with non-life-threatening gun shot wounds. Evidence of gunfire was found on Randall in the street.
Police are in this area securing evidence of this incident.

The connection between the person in the vehicle and the pedestrian are not known.

Detectives and patrol officers are in the area of Porter and Randall talking with witnesses to the
incident.

If anyone has information about this incident they can call the Beloit Police Department Detective
Bureau at 364-6800 or Crime Stoppers at 362-7463.

Multiple agencies were involved with the initial call and subsequent needs to secure scenes, gather
evidence and maintain order. Units from the jurisdictions of Beloit Township and the Rock County
Sheriff’s Department assisted during the first few hours of this call. All Beloit Police resources on first
and second shifts are being used for this incident.

More information will be available on 11/25/09 after notification of relatives to the victim.

Pursuant to the directive of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, as found in Supreme Court Rule
20:3:6 Trial Publicity, you are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a
defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

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