This story may be hitting real close to home. I received a call from one of my employees. She said her brother had been shot and "they said he was dead." She was going to be heading up to Rice Lake. She is from area where the shootings took place.
Terrible!
Prayers for her and her family. I'm holding my breath also because I worked with quite a few Rice Lake folks until recently.
Oh, dear God. My thoughts and prayers go with her.
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.
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