Posted on 11/21/2004 4:15:12 PM PST by Jotmo
EXELAND, Wis. - Five people are dead and three injured in a shooting incident that apparently began over a hunting dispute in western Wisconsin.
The confrontation began around noon in a rural area southwestern Sawyer County. Authorities said a hunting party returning to their deer shack reported seeing a hunter unknown to them occupying their tree stand. That led to a shooting.
One of the shooting victims used a walkie talkie to radio back to the deer shack for help. When the victim's hunting partners came to the scene, they were also shot.
Sawyer County was in a virtual lockdown as authorities searched for the gunman. One suspect was eventually taken into custody around 5:15 p.m.
The suspect's name has not been released.
Officials at Lakeview Medical Center in Rice Lake said they have treated at least three gunshot victims. They said one of the victims was transported to a hospital in Marshfield, WI. Another victim is in critical condition and is undergoing surgery. The third victim is in fair condition in the intensive care unit.
Unless it's a muzzle loader.
See my posts #84 and 111.
i'd hoped that was the case, on reflection. /caffeine.
And look for the Hollywood elites to prepare for a movie based upon "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".
Needless to say, the liberals in Madison are going to call for a complete ban on hunting, guns, etc. etc. Well at least a hunter with the money can go to England for an old fashioned fox hunt. Oops, darn! They banned that too.
Much more info needed, example: who shot first?
One "a Hmong st" us.
You're preaching to the choir.....:)
We don't know at this time.
10 to 1 it was.
My brother and uncle were forcibly relieved of a buck by some loon who'd obviously been hitting the Wild Turkey.
see post 101 :)
primarily Laos I believe with a good number in Cambodia.
The Laotian Communists made a bid to exterminate the Hmong then settled into harassment and persecution which continues. The Vietnamese Coommunists have treated them and the other mountain people as we treated the Indians in the 1890s. The problem is further complicated by the rapidly ongoing conversion of the Minorities in Viet Nam to Christianity. The Communists are quite nonplused and go through cycles of persecution and trying to confine them to fixed locations. There is always "unrest" in the minority areas.
Believe it. They're considered a very reliable Democratic bloc here and the few who've made it to elected office are all from the far left wing of the Democratic party. Ironic, huh?
The children of the immigrants also seem to have taken over most of the urban retail drug trade, much to the annoyance of our indigenous African-American population.
Hardly. The Hmong people were on our side, and many of them emigrated to the U.S., with a large population coming to the TC's.
As far as I understand it, they didn't even have a written language, and have made a significant effort to learn English.
No way. The Hmong were American allies in the war.
Nov 21, 2004 4:27 pm US/Central
(WCCO) Five people are dead and three injured after a shooting Sunday around noon in northwest Wisconsin.
Officials say the shooting started after some deer hunters told a man he couldn't be in their deer stand near the town of Birchwood, Wis. Authorities say the man returned with an assault rifle and started shooting. A victim used a walkie-talkie to call other hunters for help. When they arrived, they were also shot.
Police arrested a suspect from the Twin Cities area around 5 p.m.
A spokeswoman at Lakeview Medical Center in Rice Lake, Wis. said the hospital was treating two men.
One is in fair condition. The other is in critical condition.
A third shooting victim was transferred to the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wis. That victim was originally taken to the Lakeview Medical Center.
Watch WCCO 4 News following the movie and WCCO 4 News This Morning for more information and reports from the scene.
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