Wisconsin

An 18-year-old man was arrested Friday in the killings of a UW-Madison doctor and her husband, UW-Madison police said. Khari Sanford, 18, was arrested on two counts of being a party to first-degree intentional homicide, UW Police Chief Kristen Roman said Friday. Sanford was booked into the Dane County Jail at 2:22 a.m. "The suspect is known to the family, and as we shared in a previous statement, we believe that this was not a random act," Roman said. "It was calculated, cold-blooded and senseless."

Dr. Beth Potter, 52, a family medicine physician, and her husband, Robin Carre, 57, an educator and former coaching director at Regent Soccer Club, died from “homicidal related trauma,” the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office said Wednesday.

Their bodies were found Tuesday morning by a jogger who saw them lying in a ditch about a quarter of a mile into the UW Arboretum from the entrance on North Wingra Drive, police said. Carre died at the scene, and Potter was taken to a hospital where she died shortly afterward, the medical examiner’s office said.

Roman did not specify how Sanford knew the family, what his motive may have been or how the couple was killed. UW Police spokesman Marc Lovicott said the department is not releasing that information at this time. Investigators “think this was a targeted act of violence against these two individuals,” Lovicott said. Lovicott said Sanford is being held on party-to-a-crime charges because police are continuing to investigate and they "still have many leads to follow." "We know he was involved in their murders," Lovicott said. "There may be others. There may not be."

Police are asking anyone with information about the case to contact Madison Area Crime Stoppers at (608) 266-6014 or online at www.p3tips.com.

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Sanford was arrested last year for car theft and accepted into a deferred prosecution program in February, according to online court records, which show him most recently living in Middleton.