BLAIR, Wis. – A man who reportedly bashed in the kitchen door of a Blair home was shot and critically wounded, police said. The man was taken eight miles to the Whitehall hospital, then transferred 50 miles for acute trauma care in LaCrosse. Police Chief Kent Johnson said that officers were to called to the house, on residential Taft Street, about 1 a.m. The caller, a woman, said tyat an intruder had broken in and that her husband confronted and shot him. The wounded man was found in the garage. Chief Johnson said there also had been another home break nearby earlier in the night but no one was home. Johnson declined to release the names of the parties.
