WORT-FM staff member shot in Studio

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https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/...cle_3012306b-5311-5419-9740-d14ba6396759.html

Note this is an ongoing investigation at the time of post.

. A shooting inside the WORT-FM radio station in Downtown Madison early Sunday left a disc jockey with a non life-threatening injury.

Around 3 a.m., a masked shooter entered the progressive radio station at 118 S. Bedford St. and opened fire on three volunteer radio hosts in the station’s Combo B studio as the three fled the room to take cover, said David Devereaux-Weber, president of WORT’s board of directors.

“A person entered the station and went into the studio and fired a number of shots,” Devereaux-Weber said. “(The hosts) ducked and ran into the master control room and from there into our music library and hid from the shooter.”

Madison police spokesman Howard Payne said the disc jockey, a 33-year-old man, had a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and was taken to a hospital. Devereaux-Weber said the man was shot in the buttocks and had been released from the hospital by Sunday afternoon.

Payne said the shooting was not random, and there was no risk to the public. Police are searching for the shooter and did not speculate on a motive for the shooting.

On Sunday afternoon, as show tunes were playing on WORT’s airwaves, Devereaux-Weber pointed out where one bullet penetrated two panes of glass separating the Combo B studio and the master control room where the hosts had fled through. Two other bullet holes could be seen in sound-dampening material on the studio’s wall.

 

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http://www.wisn.com/article/madison-radio-host-shot-in-near-downtown-studio/22646749

http://www.nbc15.com/content/news/O...et-wound-at-WORT-radio-station-490098991.html

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