Happy looking guy. This booking photo provided by the Sawyer County (Wis.) Sheriff's Department shows Chai Vang on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004, at the Sawyer County Sheriff's Department in Hayward, Wis.
Posted on 11/22/2004 12:41:19 PM PST by Mr.Atos
Wisconsin town in shock over shootings
Duluth News Tribune
RICE LAKE, Wis. - The community where eight people were shot, five of them fatally, after a hunting dispute Sunday was trying to absorb the horror of the incident today.
"The community is in shock," said Glen Ruie of Rice Lake. "These people weren't murdered. It was a massacre. We're all just trying to cope with it."
Mike Neil, a salesman at Link Motors in Rice Lake, where two of the shooting survivors work, said, "This is insane. This doesn't happen around here."
He predicted that the incident would lessen hunters' enthusiasm for heading out into the woods, at least in the short term.
Meanwhile, the most seriously injured survivor of the Northwestern Wisconsin shooting spree was listed in critical condition today at Lakeview Medical Center in Rice Lake.
The two other men who were shot but survived are in stable condition, said Dr. Lynn Koob, general surgeon at the Rice Lake hospital. All three men were described as in their 40s and 50s and are from Rice Lake. Each was shot once, Koob said.
Five people, one a woman and one a teenage boy, were killed following a dispute over the use of a tree stand. Chai Vang, 36, of St. Paul was arrested several hours after the shootings and is being held in the Sawyer County Jail.
The patient in critical condition, Denny Drew, suffered a gunshot wound that penetrated his abdomen from side to side, piercing his pancreas and small and large intestines, Koob said in a morning news conference.
Terry Willers was shot from above in the neck and shoulder, Koob said. His injuries are to the bone. He was transported by helicopter to St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, Wis.
Lauren Hesebeck was shot from the rear in the shoulder and arm. Hesebeck is Drew's brother-in-law.
Koob said the men were shot with a high-powered assault rifle from a range of about 50 yards.
Earlier in the news conference, Ned Wolf, chief executive officer of Lakeview Medical Center, read a statement from the family of the three survivors. It said, in part, "We are grieving for our friends who were killed yesterday, and it is important for us to spend time with our own family today.
"It is also important for the community to know the status of our family and friends." They thanked the community for its care and support.
Wolf announced that a fund has been set up for the shooting victims. Donations can be sent to the Rice Lake Hunters Survivors and Victims Fund, Dairy State Bank, 16 S. Main St., Rice Lake, Wis. 54868.
The Sawyer County Sheriff's Department has scheduled a news conference at 1 p.m., when the names of the five people killed will be released.
I have two as well. I think everyone should have two :o) I hit clays at 200 all the time with mine plus they are designed to work anywhere and under very bad conditions. Have a buddy that had one that was rusted to heck and it still worked and shot well
Yeah, I hear that. I had to dig hard to find anything with new information that wasn't just the basic AP story repeated over and over again. Particularly for names as another poster over there has an employee who is related to one of the victims.
You don't go deer hunting with a clip, He was hunting humans.
Happy looking guy. This booking photo provided by the Sawyer County (Wis.) Sheriff's Department shows Chai Vang on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004, at the Sawyer County Sheriff's Department in Hayward, Wis.
Zeigle said the suspect was "chasing after them and killing them," with a SKS 7.62 mm semiautomatic rifle, a common hunting weapon. Wisconsin's statewide deer gun hunting season started Saturday and lasts for nine days.
About 20 shots were fired but it was unclear if any of the hunters had fired at the suspect or who might have shot first, Zeigle said. There was just one gun among the eight people killed or wounded, he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=273117
Well it's not Irish.
Sounds asian to me.
What?? I carry a Browning Medallion .270. It's bolt action but has a 5 shot capacity. I don't know anyone but black powder hunters that go out with single shot weapons
Do you own, or have you fired an SKS? A Russian or other eastern European model is likely to be a 2" gun at 100 yds. no tack driver, but will do the job at short range, such as in the woods. The 7.62x39mm cartridge is comparable to the .30-30; IOW, it's a decent deer gun. They're used as such in some states.
True of some Chicom rifles; NOT true of Russian, Yugoslavian, and East German.
Exactly.
Apparently they are accurate enough to take out humans from 50 yards.
Sorry. These days you almost have to post a disclaimer or you'll get flamed. Even here.
7.62x39 mm from an SKS...Medium powered, about the same as a 30-30.
I like them, they were designed before the AK and were proven in battle. Several models and varients were made, even Egyptians had them, "Rashid" was the name of them.
We use them out on the farm, treat them like crap and they still work well.
MD
Americans are basically clueless unless they've been in combat. If they could have seen that the guy was Asian, that should have been a trigger since they know the Hmong live in the area. I try to teach my students about other cultures, but they seldom want to learn...sometimes in can cost you your life.
Think this might bring back the death penalty?
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