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A boy with a BB gun shot another juvenile and shot out the sliding glass door of a North Side residence on Thursday night, Madison police reported.

At about 7:30 p.m. Thursday, police were sent to Northridge Terrace after a resident of the area called to report that he could see someone on the balcony/patio area of a nearby apartment building holding what appeared to be a long gun of some kind. The caller said he heard a "pop" and then saw his sliding glass door was shattered and believed it had been shot out, Sgt. Nathan Becker said in a statement.

Police were able to determine that the projectile fired at the man's residence was most likely from a BB or pellet gun, Becker said.

They contacted a boy and his mother at their apartment and discovered that the boy had been shooting a BB gun from his balcony. In addition to shooting his neighbors sliding glass door, it was discovered that he also shot a fellow juvenile in a “non-vital area” while they were playing, Becker said.

Crosman Legacy and Daisy Red Ryder BB guns and Copperhead BB were taken from the apartment as evidence, Becker said.

The boy, who was very remorseful for his actions, was issued a juvenile restorative justice referral and left in the care of his guardian, Becker said.

From the more than 240 stories I published in 2021, here are five that stand out in my mind for various reasons, because of their unusual subject matter, popularity among readers or the lasting impact the subjects of those stories will have. Most are different from the usual things I encounter in the courts every day.

Edgewood High School's football team was in the WIAA playoffs when it was disqualified for having an ineligible player. 

This was one of the more unusual cases I covered this year. 

East High School business teacher David Kruchten, explained himself in a letter to U.S. District Judge James Peterson before his sentencing. 

Amid days covering unspeakable tragedy, it was a wonderful diversion to meet Alan Crossley, a volunteer with Wheels for Winners. 

A state Supreme Court decision put the drunken driving homicide case against Dawn Prado, pending since 2015, back on the Dane County docket.

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The three suspects, all from Madison, have been arrested and are being held in the Dane County Jail on what authorities are calling a targeted homicide.

The juveniles had crashed a stolen car on the Beltline before fleeing into the Far West Side move theater to hide.

The driver allegedly began fighting with an officer, leading other officers to intervene and eventually use a taser on the car's passenger, who was also resisting arrest.

Police seized cocaine, fentanyl and marijuana in connection to the recent arrest of a Janesville man charged with first-degree reckless homicide last fall, the Janesville Police Department reported. 

Five people were arrested after crashing a stolen car on the Beltline on Wednesday night, Madison police reported.

Logan J. Gueths died on June 8 from blunt force trauma, the Dane County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed.

The 18-year-old peered into a bathroom stall at a girl at a Stoughton restaurant, a complaint states.

One person was killed and another was critically injured in a rollover crash on Interstate 39 near Portage on Friday morning, the Wisconsin State Patrol reported.

A crash between a train and construction equipment caused some traffic headaches in McFarland on Thursday afternoon, police reported.

A group of men have attacked people four different times in recent weeks in Downtown Madison and on UW's campus.

Trevon M. Davis-Williams, 23, of Dodgeville, died from homicidal sharp-force-related trauma, the Medical Examiner’s Office said.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice has identified the Oconto County Sheriff’s Office sergeant and the armed woman he shot to death during a traffic stop off Interstate 41 on June 8.

Wife of missing man had not talked to him since Monday morning, she told police.

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