Posted on 11/08/2005 1:45:50 PM PST by Ladysmith
Prosecutors say they want Chai Vang to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole when he's sentenced in Sawyer County Court today.
Thirty-seven-year-old Chai Soua Vang of St. Paul was convicted on six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted homicide in the killings last November on private hunting land south of Hayward.
The hunters were shot on the second day of the gun deer season. Four of the victims were shot in the back and all but one were unarmed. Vang claims he heard racial taunts from the hunters prior to the killings, while the two surviving victims say this is not so.
Representatives of most of the victims' families are expected to testify at the sentencing.
Vang sentencing ping.
Then leave him twisting slowly in the wind.
I'd hope so.
Thank you.
I'd say his possability of living more than a year in prison
are low.
he'll either kill himself or be killed by a fellow inmate.
Thanks for the ping, Ladysmith. I've been wondering when Vang was going to be sentenced. Life in prison with NO chance for parol is the second best sentence he could receive. The best sentence would be the "death sentence".
Just sorry I didn't get this posted sooner. Just got home from school and hearing the news update while on the way home reminded me of this. Not sure if I understood things right, did he get the 6 lifers or are they still decided on it?
May he become the girlfriend of Bubba.
Now we'll get to see how strong he is without a rifle to bushwhack armed but unsuspecting hunters and chase down and kill those who were unarmed.
He'll be out in 10 years.
Too bad they can't fry him.
The man convicted of murdering six Wisconsin deer hunters and injuring two others will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Tuesday afternoon, the judge handed Chai Vang consecutive life sentences without possiblity for extended supervision.
Vang gunned down the hunters in Sawyer County last November.
Bang (sic) has the right to appeal.
Only in a coffin.
This just in on WIBA AM 1310 top of the hour news:
Six consecutive life sentences for Vang.
Apparently, the judge had some comments for Vang but I missed them. Any word on what they were?
HAYWARD, Wis. - A Hmong immigrant convicted of murdering six deer hunters and attempting to kill two others after a dispute over trespassing in northwestern Wisconsin was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday with no chance for parole.
Judge Norman Yackel ordered Chai Soua Vang, 37, to serve six life prison terms, one after the other, guaranteeing he would never be freed from prison. Wisconsin does not have a death penalty.<
Yackel described Vang as a "time bomb ready to go off" at the slightest provocation.
"These crimes are not isolated acts, but a pattern of anti-social conduct," the judge said.
Vang, a truck driver from St. Paul, Minn., was convicted of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted homicide in the Nov. 21 slayings on private hunting land south of Hayward.
A jury deliberated 3 1/2 hours Sept. 16 before finding Vang guilty following a six-day trial, agreeing with prosecutors that Vang gunned down the hunters in a rampage. Vang testified he shot in self-defense after one hunter angrily shouted profanities at him and used racial slurs before another fired at him.
The murders, on the second day of the gun deer season, rocked the northwoods - four of the victims were shot in the back, two as they tried to run away and two as they rode out an all-terrain vehicle to help. All but one were unarmed.
The slayings also exposed racial tension between the predominantly white northwoods and Hmong people who have immigrated to the Midwest.
Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager sought the maximum sentence for Vang, a father of seven children. She argued Vang would kill again unless he was locked up for the rest of his life, given his "explosive temperament" and lack of true remorse or regret.
According to trial testimony, Vang said he got lost, went into a tree stand on the private land and was asked by another hunter, Terry Willers, to leave. Vang said he apologized and started walking away.
Other companions of Willers arrived, and there was an angry verbal confrontation and threats to report Vang to game wardens for trespassing.
Vang testified the white hunters used racial slurs and profanity before Willers fired the first shot as Vang walked away.
Willers and the other wounded hunter, Lauren Hesebeck, said no one in their group pointed a gun at Vang before he opened fire.
Willers and Hesebeck indicated only one shot was fired at Vang - by Hesebeck, who was already wounded and some of his friends lay mortally wounded on the ground.
Vang was convicted of killing Robert Crotteau, his son Joey Crotteau, Denny Drew, Allan Laski, Jessica Willers and Mark Roidt, all from the Rice Lake area. All were relatives and friends who gathered to hunt from the Crotteaus' cabin near Exeland.
With apologies to Neil Diamond and Hmong's....
I just can't get the lyric and tune out of my head.....
Hmong hung low, weepin' like a willow,
Why wasn't this man stuck in a mental institution before he could have caused any more harm?
Why does the media use the word hunters? Only one was armed. Are we drawing out sympathy for this coldblooded immigrant killer? The American press is so filled with sleaze. The intimate that one armed killer was confronted by six hunters. The impression the casual reader would think the hunters were armed and that the non white immigrant felt threatened. Talk about using loaded words.
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