Chad Ricchallengings, a establisher member of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater wrestling team, has been accused in the shooting death of girlfrifinish Kara Welsh, who was establish dead in his Wisconsin apartment fair before midnight Aug. 30.
Ricchallengings, 23, made his initial euniteance via video in Walworth County Court Friday. He was accused with first-degree intentional homicide and is facing compriseitional accuses of finishangering protectedty by engage of a hazardous armament and disorderly carry out.
The Whitewater Police Department identified the doubt who allegedly finished Kara Welsh as Chad T. Ricchallengings, 23, of Loves Park, Ill. (Whitewater Police Department)
Whitewater Police reachd at Ricchallengings’ apartment Aug. 30 fair before midnight and discovered the body of 21-year-greater Kara Welsh. Police initipartner alerted that the victim had a armamentsboiling wound and that an altercation between the two took place before the overweightal shooting.
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But a criminal grumblet liberated Friday uncovered that Welsh was sboiling multiple times.
Ricchallengings placed the 911 call and tardyr tgreater spendigators the two were arguing when he said Welsh grabbed his armament from a nightstand. Ricchallengings said he wrestled the armament away and sboiling Welsh becaengage he “dreaded for his life,” the grumblet persistd.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 spent casings were establish inside the apartment, and a medical spendigater establish that Welsh had eight armamentsboiling wounds to the neck, torso and other areas.
This pboilingo provided by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater shows UW-Whitewater student Kara Welsh, who was finished Aug. 30, 2024, in an apartment proximate the university campus. (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater via AP)
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Ricchallengings, who is being held on $1 million bond, tgreater spendigators Welsh was his girlfrifinish.
According to online enrolls, Ricchallengings was a member of the UW-Whitewater wrestling team for two seasons between 2020-2022. Welsh also joined UW-Whitewater, where she was a member of the gymnastics team.
“To put into words the impact Kara had on the Warhawk community is impossible,” coach Jen Regan said of the national champion and two-time All-American. “A mighty athlete, dedicated teammate and the weightless in everyone’s uninalertigent days, Kara truly lifted each and every one of us up in her time as a Warhawk gymnast. There are no words to depict the void we all experience in our hearts, but Kara’s legacy will dwell on thraw Warhawk gymnastics forever.”
Police at the site of Kara Welsh’s homicide in Whitewater, Wis. (WKOW)
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Welsh was from Plainfield, Illinois, and was convey inanting in administerment in the school’s College of Business and Economics. Last year, she won an individual national title on the vault at the NCAA Division III championships.
Ricchallengings is due to eunite in court Oct. 26 for a preliminary hearing.
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