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.
"Alcohol may have been involved..."
About noon, some of the party were back in the shack and others were out hunting, and as the hunting group headed back to the shack they saw that this guy had come back again and sitting in one of their tree stands. They walked over to confront him, and that's when he opened fire.
One of the hunters had a walkie-talkie and radioed back to the shack that he'd been shot, and the rest came running out to help and apparently were ambushed.
Wisconsin is not going to ban weapons. You can be sure of that. It's a big hunting state.
Is Ron Artest a deer hunter?
John Kerry's a hunter isn't he?
Sounds like he was three to do some people hunting. Very sad story.
on FNC now....
My guess was that he was driving an SUV.
Prayers for the victims souls, their families and who are wounded.
Nope. Not enough. Must ban hunting along with all the other items you mentioned.
I'm sure somehow it must be Bush's fault.
enough of this story for FNC, now its back to the Artest replay for the 150th time.
My daughter uses an SKS. Provided you use good ammo (e.g., Federal 125-gr JSP), they are decently accurate out to 200 yards and quite effective on whitetails. Ballistically, they're about equivalent to a .30-30, and the gas-operated semi-auto action makes for very mild recoil and very fast follow-up shots.
I wonder who he voted for, if he voted. Maybe he suffers from PEST.
Thank you! My SIL is a Doctor at Marshfield. I'll see her on Turkey Day and post insider info if I get anything out of her.
How old is it?
I've got one, but it's an older one before they starting stamping them out in mass mass production.
Isn't Wiscinsin a blue state?
Most of the state is red but there's not enough of us to offset the big islands of insanity (and vote fraud) in Madison & Milwaukee.
See post #51 for links to Hmong people.
cmsgop wrote:
So he is a Chi-Com Ehh....?
Your report makes a heck of a lot better sense than that first POS.
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