Crime & Safety

Triple Homicide Suspect Arrested at Waukesha Apartments

A person wanted in connection with a triple homicide in Lafayette County was arrested Sunday at the Willow Park Apartments in Waukesha.

A suspect wanted in connection with the homicides of three people in southwestern Wisconsin was arrested Sunday at the Willow Park Apartments in Waukesha, police said.

The apartments are near Washington Avenue and Delafield Street. Police remained on the scene as of 5:15 p.m. The suspect is a 31-year-old Waukesha man who was reported missing and in a disorientated, altered state, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The suspect was reported missing after he had last been seen Friday afternoon, and was possibly partially naked after discarding clothes along a path in Green County, according to Madison.com.

Waukesha Police Lt. Tom Wagner confirmed that the person apprehended by city police and the state Department of Criminal Investigation was the suspect in the murders in Lafayette County.

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Lafayette County sheriff's deputies said a family member reported finding a person dead on Sunday morning inside a home in Wiota, according to Patch's media partners at WISN 12 News. When the officers arrived, they found two more people dead inside the house, the station reported.

The three victims did not know suspect, according to WXOW.

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Meanwhile, authorities are continuing the search for Eddie Callaway, who has been charged with homicide in the April 22 death of after after Shanel 'Nani' Negron.

Patch will continue to update this story as more details become available.


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