Madison police arrested a Baraboo man after he used a stun gun on another man Friday afternoon.

Kevin Johnson, 59, was arrested on charges of battery, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of an electric weapon.

According to a police report, the incident occurred close to the victim’s home business, a dance studio, near Ohio Avenue and St. Paul Avenue.

“After arriving, [the suspect] pulled out the stun gun and used it on the neck of the business owner,” the police report stated.

After the suspect used the stun gun, the victim and suspect began to wrestle, and the victim’s roommate stepped in, punching the suspect and knocking him off of the victim, police reports said.

Upon fleeing, the suspect was chased by the victim and the roommate, each of whom carried a weapon — a snow shovel and a hammer. The suspect was hit once with the shovel but not injured.

During the pursuit, one of the men yelled for police to be called. Madison Police Department officers responded shortly thereafter.

The suspect was arrested within walking distance of the scene shortly after the incident occurred, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain.

“We are not clear as to why the suspect decided to use the stun gun on the victim,” DeSpain said of the suspect’s motives. “According to the victim, there was no prior relationship [to the suspect].”

The Wisconsin state statute defines an electric weapon as “any device that is designed, redesigned, used or intended to be used, offensively or defensively, to immobilize or incapacitate persons by the use of electric current.”

“For everyday citizens it would be illegal,” DeSpain said regarding carrying electric weapons.

DeSpain said there is a detective working on the case.

Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6, who represents the district in which the incident took place, said she believes her district and this neighborhood in particular are in general quite safe.

In an unrelated incident Monday morning at 9:20 a.m., approximately one mile away in District 6, a car struck an 11-year-old boy as he tried to cross East Washington Avenue at First Street. It was an outbound vehicle that struck the O’Keeffe Middle School student.

“He was unconscious when rescue personnel arrived,” DeSpain said.

The boy was then transported to a local hospital with what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries, according to the police report.

Traffic had a green light at the time of the incident, the police report said.

“Rather than step back, [the boy] ran across the intersection,” DeSpain said.

The driver of the vehicle was not cited.

“At this stage in the investigation, the young man ran into traffic,” DeSpain said.

DeSpain said a traffic investigator is continuing to investigate the incident.

Rummel expressed concern for both the boy and his family.

“My heart goes out to them,” Rummel said.