The Dane County Medical Examiner's Office has identified the man killed in a shooting on Madison's north side last Friday as 21-year-old Tavis D. Thurman. Officers were called to the 2300 block of Calypso Road around 8:15 p.m. after reports of gunfire, and found Thurman suffering from a gunshot wound inside a car. He died at a local hospital that night.
According to the WMTV 15 NEWS, the medical examiner's office confirmed Thurman's identity and age days after the shooting. His death remains under investigation by the Madison Police Department and the medical examiner's office.
Police said an adult passenger riding in the same vehicle as Thurman was not injured, according to the City of Madison Police Department. Officers recovered multiple shell casings in the roadway, the department said. A bullet also struck a nearby apartment, coming within inches of hitting a person who was inside watching television at the time.
Investigators Call Shooting Targeted, Point to Two People of Interest
Investigators believe the shooting was targeted and have identified two people of interest, the police report states. The city's account also notes that a search warrant tied to the shooting was executed at an apartment on Brentwood Parkway. Police said two men were taken into custody on separate charges as the investigation continued, though the case has not been described as resulting in homicide charges against either man.
The investigation remains ongoing, per the same department's report, and no further details about a motive or how the shooting unfolded have been released.
One of Four Homicides Madison Police Are Working at Once
The Calypso Road killing was one of four homicides Madison police were responding to within roughly a week, according to WXOW. Seehafer News reported that the cluster included a separate weekend homicide on Regent Street, though further confirmed details about that case were not available. Investigators told Seehafer News that none of the four cases appear to be connected.
The spike comes even as citywide violent crime figures have trended downward. Madison police logged 117 reports of gunfire in 2025, a 10.7% drop from the prior year and more than 24% below the three-year average, the City of Madison reported earlier this year. The department investigated five homicides in all of 2025, compared with seven in 2024 — figures that underscore how unusual it is for four homicide investigations to be running at the same time within a single week.
