An incident of shooting on the 100 block of State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, has left one victim injured. The police are still looking for the suspect, who has reportedly escaped from the scene. No description for the perpetrator has been made available yet.

The victim has been taken to a hospital. The Madison Police Department has reported that officers went to the scene soon after 3:30 PM and found the victim with one gunshot wound. 

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The police have asked members of the media to “gather in front of the State Historical Museum” 

The shooting on State Street is the second one in the city this week. Earlier, on November 22, a shooting had taken place on Lakeside Drive’s 100 block.

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Shon Barnes, the Madison City Police Department Chief, who held a press conference addressing today’s shooting, had said on Tuesday, “It’s very disturbing, whether we have a shooting in daytime, nighttime, business area, my neighborhood, your neighborhood, it affects us all the same”.

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Barnes said the department believes the victim and suspect knew each other but they don’t know the nature of the relationship yet. There was some type of altercation before the shooting, he added.

Officers are canvassing the area to check if anyone heard or saw anything and are looking for security camera video. Barnes addressed safety concerns the public may have.

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“We should all be worried about our safety but as for right now, we don’t have any reason to believe those in the immediate area should be concerned, but someone had a weapon and fired it in a public area so we should all be concerned about that, Barnes said. “We should all be, as I said, sitting down with our family members… sitting down with the people we love asking how can we prevent this?”

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According to the MPD report, the suspect is still at large, and this remains a “very active scene,” . Local authorities are advising the community to avoid the area.