No death penalty in Wisconsin, if memory serves me.
So what's the scoop on this Vang guy?
Either PTSD or one really flipped out PETA/ELF/ALF/ASPCA/GREENIE nut!
My first impression was the latter - a whacko's delusional attempt to make hunters the hunted.
I'm so sorry that this man has died too. Prayers go out to his family and to the families of the other victims. May God comfort them and give them strength during this difficult time.
Sad ping
Lord, please give them comfort beyond what can be humanly comprehended. Help them feel Your presence in this time of deep shock and grief.
May justice be swift and sure for their murderer.
Did this guy understand English?
So sad. Prayers.
I suspect this was the fellow that was shot in the guts..for lack of a better way to put it. BAD way to go that one and very hard to treat. Infection sets in because of all the contents in there.
This is really a terrible event. I hope they hang the bastard who did this from a light pole.
He had a short criminal history, with an arrest for threatening his wife with a gun a few years ago, and a couple of visits to his house for domestic disputes.
This is not being portrayed here in MN as a gun control issue. Just a sad tragedy.
This is all part of the Bush/Kerry immigration policy where we get to conform to their ways instead of the other way around.
From Ch 18
Shooting Spree: Sixth Hunter Dies
Marshfield
Nov 22, 2004
Denny Drew died on Monday night at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield. Drew was 55 years old. He was from Rice Lake. He was among the eight people wounded on Sunday afternoon. Authorities say it all started after a hunter was told to leave a tree stand on private property. They say Chai Vang climbed down from the tree and started shooting. Five of the victims died at the scene. Robert Crotteau and his son, Joey were killed along with Al Laski, Mark Roidt and Jessica Willers. Drew was among three others who were wounded. The other two are still in the hospital. Vang was arrested in the case and could be charged with murder. He's from St. Paul, Minnesota.
Twenty-year-old Joey Crotteau died along with his father.
Robert Crotteau 42
Denny Drew died Monday night.
Mark Roidt was among those killed. He was 28.
Al Laski died. He was 43.
Mother Says Son Loved to Hunt
Barron County
Nov 22, 2004
The mother of one of the victims of Sunday's shooting is trying to take comfort in the fact her son died doing something he loved. "I don't know how I feel right now," says Karen Roidt, whose son Mark Roidt died. "I just don't know how I feel right now. I just hope justice is done." Karen says her son loved to go hunting with his father. Mark's friends say he was a fun-loving guy who was always upbeat. "It was just a senseless crime," says Karen. "He doesn't know how many lives have been affected, not just the eight families of the victims."
Community Reacts to Shooting
Rice Lake
Nov 22, 2004
Sunday's shooting in Sawyer County is hitting the Rice Lake community hard. All of the victims were well-known and well-liked in Rice Lake. "Horror, just gut-wrenching horror," says Rebecca Olson. "Who would believe something like this would ever happen? It's awful."
"You hear the names of the people who didn't make it out of the woods and this is a small town, and I did, I knew them all, and it's a terrible thing," says Dan Organ.
Chip Klabough says he's hunted in the Birchwood area and knows the territory well. "There's a ton of public land to hunt on, so why would you have to have an argument about private land or anything -- I don't comprehend it," says Klabough.
Other hunters News 18 talked to say there have been disputes between hunters and land owners in the past, and they say they are surprised something like this didn't happen earlier.
From Ch 13
Sixth Shooting Victim Dies
November 22, 2004
Andrew Fefer
The Sawyer County sheriff says there are thousands of acres of public land in that area available for hunting, but the dispute took place at midday Sunday on four-hundred acres of private land.
When the landowner saw 36-year-old Chai Vang in a tree stand without permission, he radioed to his hunting party.
"He stated over the radio he was going to go and ask the persons to leave," said Sheriff Jim Meier. "He approached the person and asked him to leave at which time the landowners and occupants of the cabin that he was staying at also came on the scene; the suspect got down from the stand, walked about 40 yards, fiddled with his rifle, maybe took the scope off, turned, and opened fire on the group."
That's when Terry Willard radioed for help, but as seven other people came to assist, they became victims as well. Finally, a few other members of the party were able to make a run for help.
"The rescuers, who also came under fire, checked the bodies for signs of life and they grabbed who they could grab and got out of there because they were still under fire."
As the survivors sped toward Birchwood, the shooter reportedly stayed in the woods for another five hours, his exact movements not clear until he was seen by two other hunters.
"They came upon the subject, he reported he was lost, they didn't realize who they were talking to, so out of the goodness of their hearts, they gave him a ride back out at which time they had realized they had Mr. Vang in their presence and offered him a ride to the warden's truck, at which time he was taken into custody."
The suspect, Vang, was described as calm and cooperative, saying nothing that would indicate what specifically led to the gunshots that left victims, dead and wounded, scattered over an area of about a hundred yards.
Monday evening, the family of 55-year-old Denny Drew released a statement through Lakeview Medical Center in Rice Lake saying that he died at St. Joseph's in Marshfield.
A terrible story. Prayers for the victims and their families.
Ladysmith do you no if any of them worked for Besse?
Let me be the first to say that this shows the importance of assault weapons. 8 guys with scoped rifles are outgunned by one man with a junk SKS.
No wonder every military on the planet arms most of their troops with self-loading rifles.
And when some folks say "we don't need battle rifles to defend liberty, because I am a crack shor with my scoped sniper rifle", we can just point to this incident and ask how good bolt rifles are against one man with an SKS.
Of course, the real problem is that the victims never shifted mental state into combat, probably just wondering what the heck is going on, and not considering shooting back.