Police identify suspect and victim of Prairie du Chien homicide

It is alleged that Jessie J. Slaughter, 39, killed Daniel Welsch, 65, of Prairie du Chien. Police previously said the men knew each other, but did not provide further details.

Police said in a statement that they had referred Slaughter’s first-degree reckless homicide and bail revocation charges to the Crawford County District Attorney.

At the time of the Prairie du Chien incident, Slaughter was out on bond from Oneida County for disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property.

No further details have been released and an autopsy is scheduled for Monday in Madison.

On Friday around 10:15 p.m., police were called to a home in the 1000 block of East Wisconsin Street in Prairie du Chien to check for the death of one person, Chief Kyle Teynor said in a statement Saturday.

Officers found a man – identified Monday as Welsch – dead inside the residence with wounds “consistent with trauma caused by a sharp object.”

Based on evidence and witness statements, a search warrant was obtained and executed Saturday at a home in the Grant County town of Platteville, and a man later identified as Slaughter was arrested and taken to the Crawford County Jail.

Teynor said Saturday that the men knew each other and “everything indicates that this act of violence was not random.”