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Police believe Fish Hatchery Road homicide Thursday was targeted

After a shooting at an apartment on Fish Hatchery Road Thursday morning, police are investigating what they believe to be a targeted homicide.

Madison Police Department officers responded to a call around 1:11 a.m. reporting shots fired in an apartment on 2300 block of Fish Hatchery Road, according to an MPD statement. When officers arrived at the residence, they found the 30-year-old resident of the apartment with an apparent gunshot wound, the statement said. Dane County medical examiners have not yet released any personal information about the victim.

Police have classified the incident as homicide, and the victim was clearly targeted, according to MPD Spokesperson Joel DeSpain.

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No one else was harmed, DeSpain said.

Police know there were multiple people in the residence when the shooting took place, DeSpain said. However, little more is known about potential witnesses at this time. He said the murder investigation is still “rapidly evolving.”

Detectives believe there was a disturbance in the apartment prior to the shooting, DeSpain said. He said the motives of the killing are unknown and no possible suspects have been acquired, but police are sure this was not an unintentional act of violence.

The homicide took place just two and half miles from the University of Wisconsin campus. DeSpain said this is a “fluid investigation” and police will release more information over the next few days.

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