Nicole Sell

TOWN OF ADDISON - Area residents are struggling to regain a sense of security in their rural town while the Washington County Sheriff’s Department is focusing on a black sport utility vehicle that could belong to the suspect in a drive-by shooting that left a 16-year-old Slinger High student in critical condition.

Nicole Sell remains in critical condition at Children’s Hospital in Wauwatosa after being shot in the head Saturday while she slept in the back of a co-worker’s car on their way home from work at a town of West Bend restaurant, according to Sheriff Dale Schmidt.

Sell remains in critical condition at Children’s Hospital.

Sell, a hostess and dishwasher at Casa Rebecca, had left work with her two co-workers, Scott Cecil and Justin Towne, both 17, just before 11 p.m. and were returning home on Highway K when a passing vehicle, described as a black, full-sized SUV, possibly a Cadillac Escalade, fired multiple rounds into the car.

Towne, of Slinger, and Cecil, of the town of Hartford, were not injured.

Anyone with information about the incident should call the Washington County Sheriff’s Office at 335-4378 or the Washington County Tip Line at (800) 232-0594.

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