MADISON, Wis. — The Madison community is rattled by news that the alleged Highland Park shooter made his way to their city, and considered attacking a Wisconsin event. 

Phones lit up across Madison on Wednesday, when police announced the suspected shooter drove to the Madison area immediately after killing seven people at a parade in Illinois Monday. Authorities said he considered using his remaining 60 rounds to commit a second mass shooting in Wisconsin, but decided against it. 

“It’s really terrifying. Gun violence is out of control in our country, and this shows that unfortunately, no one is immune,” said Dane County Executive Joe Parisi. “We need state legislatures, we need Congress, to get serious and really take a look at what their priorities are.” 

Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway called on Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. 

“We are the only country in the developed world that allows this mayhem to be part of our daily lives. It doesn’t have to be this way," Rhodes-Conway said in a statement, 

While the suspect was in the Madison area, he left his phone in the 6500 block of University Avenue in Middleton. That’s around the parking lot of Jim’s Auto Service, owned by James Lund. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents came into his shop just after 9 a.m. Tuesday. 

“He said they have a suspect, and they needed my permission to search my property, outside my property,” Lund said. “It’s something that the suspect had left here, they thought was here, in this area.”

Middleton police had been working with the FBI on the investigation, helping recover the suspect’s phone and tracking his movements through their town. 

For southwestern Wisconsin, it’s a scary thought to know just how close this community came to tragedy.