Kara Welsh gymnastics: Plainfield community mourns UW-Whitewater college gymnast fatally shot inside Wisconsin apartment [Video]

PLAINFIELD, Ill. (WLS) — Tributes are pouring in Sunday for a 21-year-old woman from the southwest suburbs who was fatally shot Friday night inside her college apartment in Wisconsin.

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The victim, Kara Welsh, was a decorated gymnast from Plainfield who was attending the University of Wisconsin Whitewater.

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The shooting happened around 11:54 p.m. Friday at an off-campus apartment in the 100 block of West Whitewater Street in Whitewater, Wisconsin, the Whitewater Police Department said.

Welsh was allegedly shot multiple times by a man who police believe she knew, but it is not clear what the relationship between them was. There was an physical altercation between the two inside the apartment before the shooting. Officers discovered Welsh dead at the scene.

The homicide suspect is a 23-year-old man. He has was taken into custody when he was found at the apartment after the shooting, Whitewater …