A suspect accused of brutally raping and beating a College of Wisconsin scholar reportedly pretended to be an harmless bystander after the vicious assault.
Brandon Thompson, 26, is going through fees of sexual assault, reckless damage, and strangulation in reference to the assault that left a younger lady in her 20s critically injured, the Madison Police Division stated.
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes stated that round 3.20am on Sunday, a witness heard a commotion and approached the scene. Mr Thompson was standing subsequent to the sufferer and reportedly advised the witness that he had “simply discovered” her and didn’t know what had occurred.
Whereas the witness referred to as emergency companies, Mr Thompson fled the scene in his car.
The sufferer, a scholar on the College of Wisconsin-Madison, suffered a damaged jaw and different life-threatening accidents. She is in vital situation however is anticipated to outlive.
“I feel one of the crucial scary issues [is that it was a random attack],” Chief Barnes stated at a press convention on Wednesday. “…This case is not going to be full till this cowardly attacker receives the justice he deserves.”
Investigators have been in a position to hyperlink Mr Thompson to the scene due to surveillance video submitted by residents of the world that captured Mr Thompson’s license plate and that he was strolling proper behind the sufferer earlier than the assault unfolded.
Chief Barnes stated that roughly two hours earlier than the assault, Mr Thompson was pulled over by Fitchburg law enforcement officials over a registration violation. The neighbouring police division supplied bodycam footage from the site visitors cease that confirmed Mr Thompson’s clothes matched what he was sporting throughout the Madison assault.
“On account of this video, detectives have been in a position to learn a license plate that instantly led to the identification of Brandon Thompson because the perpetrator of this assault,” Assistant Chief Paige Valenta of the Madison Police Division stated.
Ms Valenta stated that DNA proof had been collected from the scene and despatched to a state crime lab.
“Her life is ceaselessly modified,” Ms Valenta added. “Her household’s life is ceaselessly modified. We’ll proceed to work exhausting to make sure that Mr Thompson is held totally accountable in a court docket of regulation for the heinous act he perpetrated.”
The suspect’s attorneys stated in an announcement to TMJ4 that he’s a graduate of the College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and has a level in felony justice and psychology. He reportedly works for a biotech firm in Madison.
Madison police stated Mr Thompson appeared to don’t have any reference to the sufferer.
He was arrested on Wednesday morning and is now awaiting official fees.