Whitewater student and champion gymnast Kara Welsh. In a Tuesday Facebook post, the department identified Richards, 23, of Loves Park, Illinois, as being arrested by Whitewater police officers Friday night.

A man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater gymnast this weekend in an off-campus apartment, days before the start of the fall semester. UW-Whitewater’s chancellor confirmed Kara Welsh’s death Friday in a message to the school community,

Kara Welsh, a 21-year-old student who was majoring in management in the school’s College of Business and Economics, was killed Friday night, Whitewater police said. The suspect, a 23-year-old man, was arrested at the scene and is being held at the Walworth County Jail.

Kara Welsh, a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student and a national gymnastics champion, was shot and killed late Friday night.

A 23-year-old man was arrested for the murder of University of Wisconsin senior Kara Welsh from Plainfield, who is remembered as a gymnast who was full of life.

A college gymnast was shot and killed in her apartment over the holiday weekend, police say. A 23-year-old man, believed to be known to her, is in custody.

Chad Richards, 23, is accused of shooting and killing 21-year-old Kara Welsh at an off-campus apartment on Friday night.

Friends are mourning the loss of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater gymnast Kara Welsh after she was fatally shot near the school's campus. WMAQ's Patrick Fazio reports.