MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – A Democratic state lawmaker says a murder in Madison proves the need for a 48-hour waiting period to buy a gun, which majority Republicans repealed last year.
Madison Representative Chris Taylor says she’ll try to reinstate the waiting period, after last Tuesday’s killing of 24-year-old Caroline Nosal outside the Metro Market where she and the alleged killer both worked.
Police say 26-year-old Christopher O’Kroley bought a gun the day he got fired — and he went back to the store’s parking lot that night before deciding to take one day to practice with the weapon.
Taylor tells WISC-TV that O’Kroley was texting people around that time — so it’s possible that if he had to wait to buy the gun, somebody could have alerted police that he was planning something.
O’Kroley is charged with homicide and reckless endangerment, and prosecutors say he planned to kill both Nosal and himself if he got fired — after he was suspended from the store for harassing her.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
