21-Year-Old Gymnast Kara Welsh MURDERED By Unsuspecting Fellow Male Gymnast

Daily Report September 02,2024

Kara Welsh, a 21-year-old gymnast at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater near where she was shot to death on March 27.

David Welsh, a member of the university’s national championship gymnastics team last year and who was shot several times by his assailant Friday at an apartment about a block from campus, police said. The suspect has not been identified but investigators believe Welsh was acquainted with him.

The nature of their relationship was not clear.

Police officers who responded to the scene, shortly before midnight Friday, found that Welsh had been shot multiple times. The police said a 23-year-old male who was known to the deceased female is also inside an apartment.

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The report said they were able to determine that there had been a confrontation between the two prior to her allegedly shooting at him. The man was later arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide, endangering safety by use or carrying a weapon while intoxicated and disorderly conduct armed. The investigation is ongoing.

Welsh was set to begin her senior year at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she also is a gymnast for the Warhawks. Welsh died, University Chancellor Corey King said he was confirming it in a message to students and faculty on Saturday.

“Kara Welsh, age 21, from Plainfield, Illinois, died in a shooting off campus on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024,” he wrote.

“Kara was majoring in management in our College of Business and Economics and was a standout member of the Warhawk gymnastics team, winning an individual national title on the vault in 2023.

“We know the news of Kara’s death is heartbreaking for our close-knit university community.

“It is a time when we are all called upon to support one another, to process, and to grieve.”

Donations for her parents, Nancy and Tom Welsh, and sister Kaeli are being accepted on a GoFundMe page. Kara was a daughter, sister, sweet friend and teammate from Plainfield, Illinois.

Kara had a special way of making everyone she met happy, with clever jokes, unending love and sensitivity. Kara, a 21-year-old gymnast in her redshirt senior year at UW-Whitewater was forced to have that experience cut short on August 30th by such a senseless act of paranoia. Our hearts are broken for our dear Welsh friends — Nancy, Tom and Kaeli as they make their way through this unimaginably tough time.