By Rory Linnane
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
On March 5, University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Eric Cardinal was working the late shift at a Shell station near campus when he read a text alert from the university warning of a suspected shooter on the loose: “Police looking for Male/Black wearing red & black flannel shirt headed west out of University Houses.”
Then Cardinal saw a man in his store duck, as a police car rolled through the parking lot.