Cops praise public's help in trying to find murder suspects
Madison police detectives are getting a lot of help from the community in trying to track down the suspects who shot Marcus Hamilton to death Sunday night, according to police spokesman Joel DeSpain.
"We are very pleased that people within the community are being very forthcoming and helping us," DeSpain said. "We are getting good information."
Hamilton, 30, was shot and killed in his southwest side duplex on Tempe Drive near McKee Road and Silverton Trail. An autopsy performed Monday showed Hamilton was killed by a single gunshot wound.
DeSpain said detectives have set up a command center at the west precinct station on McKenna Boulevard.
The two male suspects have not been named, and DeSpain did not know if they were from the Madison area or from outside the area.
Hamilton was originally from Chicago and was living in the duplex with his girlfriend and four children, according to Capital Times reporter Samara Kalk Derby.
She also reported Hamilton's cousin, Tremayne Rhodes, said the killing was most likely drug-related, since Hamilton "sold a little bit of drugs in his time," Rhodes told Kalk Derby.
DeSpain said no motive has been established by police.
"There are a number of different motives we are looking at," DeSpain said. "We do believe, however, he was targeted."
Hamilton's murder was the fourth in Madison and fifth overall in Dane County in 2008.
Joel Marino was murdered Jan. 28 in Madison, with his alleged killer, Adam Peterson, arrested June 26 in Minnesota; infant Aaron Roberts was killed Feb. 17 in Waunakee by his father David Roberts, who pleaded no contest to first-degree reckless homicide in May; Tyree Jacobs was beaten to death March 8 in Madison, with James Anderson charged with second-degree reckless homicide; and Brittany Zimmermann was murdered April 2 in her downtown Madison apartment, with her killer still at large.
