Four people, the youngest of whom is 15, have been arrested in connection with at least one of the attacks carried out in the city center and on the UW-Madison campus in the last two weeks, Madison police said.
Four suspects were arrested on Saturday, Madison Police Lt. Jennifer Hanna said in an update to a statement describing Tuesday’s most recent attack. The other three suspects are 17, 18 and 20 years old.
Police spokeswoman Stephanie Fryer said earlier that police believed the same group was responsible for other attacks on downtown and the UW-Madison campus.
Police say the attacks, at least two of which involved Asian UW-Madison students as victims, do not appear to be racially motivated, despite ongoing protests by Asian student groups marching on State Street on Friday afternoon to protest racist violence.
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At least four people from different backgrounds have been attacked by the same group in the past two weeks, Madison and UW police said. Most recently, the group attacked a man on Tuesday night in block 400 on West Gilman Street, as attackers hit and kicked him while he was on the ground, Fryer said on Friday.
Photos circulating on the social networks of the Asian student show him with wounds on his face, chin and ears.
Earlier that night, the same group threw a banana at an Asian student at the Library Mall, said UW-Madison police spokesman Mark Lowicot. Lovicot said the incident did not appear to be racially motivated, as the suspects did not say anything explicitly racist to the victim.
Police in Madison believe that this group of men attacked another man who was walking in the center on Tuesday night in the third such incident in the last week.
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Fryer said the attacks seemed accidental and “detectives have no information to make them believe” that the attacks were racially motivated.
Madison police released photos of four suspects allegedly involved in the attacks. The images show two of the men holding bananas. In a statement, UW-Madison said students were not victims of off-campus attacks.
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