By MEG JONES, Staff
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A 35-year-old woman was killed inside the Fox Lake Police Department on Sunday afternoon as she frantically tried to flee her husband, authorities said.
A pedestrian called 911 around 4:45 p.m. after seeing a man ram his car into the woman’s car in the parking lot of the Fox Lake municipal building, according to the Dodge County Sheriff’s Department.
The woman, whose name was not released by authorities Sunday night, ran from her car and fled into the building as her husband pursued her inside, the department reported.
By the time a Fox Lake police officer arrived, the 40-year-old husband was getting back into his car, authorities said. There was no sign of the woman.
The husband was uncooperative with the police officer, who used a Taser on him.
The man managed to get away and flee in his vehicle but ran off the road about a mile from the police station, where he was taken into custody for fleeing an officer.
Sheriff’s deputies found the woman in the lobby area of the municipal building, which includes the Fox Lake police station.
She was taken to Beaver Dam Community Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
An autopsy was scheduled for this morning.
No one was in the building at the time the woman ran inside to seek refuge. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Department handles dispatching duties for the small Fox Lake Police Department on weekends.
The couple recently moved to the Fond du Lac-Waupun area from Superior.
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