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WIZM 2019 TOP STORIES: No. 4, shooting death of teenager leads to manhunt

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An unsolved murder late in 2019 has made our newsroom’s list of Top 10 stories for the year. 

Ranked at #4 on the list is the November 2nd shooting death of teenager Javier Hall. 

The 18-year-old Hall was shot and killed in an alley near Copeland Avenue late at night. 

The La Crosse County DA has filed a murder charge against 27-year-old Shavonte Thompson, but no arrests have been made yet for the shooting. 

Investigators believe Thompson was the man seen on surveillance video getting out of a car and firing shots at Hall, and there is speculation that the slaying was related to the 2015 shooting death in La Crosse of another teenager, George Miller.

Hall’s death was not the only murder in La Crosse during the past year. 

On January 2nd, Virgil Stewart was stabbed to death during an argument inside a taxi cab on 7th Street. 

Anquin St. Junious is suspected in that slaying, but no trial date has been set for him.  

A native of Prairie du Chien, Brad graduated from UW - La Crosse and has worked in radio news for more than 30 years, mostly in the La Crosse area. He regularly covers local courts and city and county government. Brad produces the features "Yesterday in La Crosse" and "What's Buried on Brad's Desk." He also writes the website "Triviazoids," which finds odd connections between events that happen on a certain date, and he writes and performs with the local comedy group Heart of La Crosse. Brad been featured on several national TV programs because of his memory skills.

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  1. John Patson

    December 26, 2019 at 11:27 am

    I dont know why they keep saying he hasn’t been caught. They caught him in La Crosse a few weeks ago, but he’s not even on the Who’s In Jail list. Wierd, idk why keep it a secret.

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