Posted on 01/07/2007 5:54:45 PM PST by SmithL
Green Bay -- A Hmong hunter has been found dead in a wildlife area in a case that is stirring memories of a mass shooting that exposed racial tensions.
Cha Vang, 30, of Green Bay, was found dead Saturday morning, a night after he was reported missing in the Peshtigo Harbor Wildlife Area in northeastern Wisconsin. Investigators have not said how they believe he died but said they are treating the case as a homicide. An autopsy is planned for Monday.
Authorities detained a 28-year-old Peshtigo man, James Nichols, who showed up at a medical center Saturday with a gunshot wound that wasn't life-threatening, said Laurel Steffes, a spokeswoman for the Marinette County Sheriff's Department. He is considered a person of interest but was being held on a parole violation from an unrelated burglary conviction and had not been charged in Vang's death, she said.
Dealings between the Hmong, an ethnic minority group from Southeast Asia, and predominantly white residents of the mostly rural north woods have been on edge since November 2004, when Hmong immigrant Chai Soua Vang, 38, of St. Paul, Minn., killed six white hunters and injured two while trespassing in a private tree stand.
Chai Vang claimed he acted in self-defense after they shouted racial epithets, cursed at him and one fired a shot in his direction. The former truck driver is serving multiple life terms.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Aside from the stand of trees vs. tree stand semantics, the suspect had a bullet wound himself. anybody know more about this story?
Not much is being said around here yet, Kryp. Last time, it all started with a manhunt so a lot of information busted out in a hurry. I'm sure the authorities will try to keep a lid on things for awhile until they have a clearer understanding of what happened.
Ping.
Exactly right. The press is just being true to form; failing to give relevant details.
I thought Jefferson wanted it to go to the pfaltzgraff.
Now the Oneida fought for the United States of America and were promised all sorts of stuff by George Washington, Congress and others.
Eventually the state of New York managed to steal their land and kick them out.
A few years ago the Oneida won a battle in the Supreme Court to have their rights restored. New York was then given the opportunity to provide land to the Oneida in the requisite quantity.
This is currently under way.
At the same time the Oneida were given the opportunity to open a casino so they could raise the money from among the now native New Yorkers to purchase all that land for the Oneida orphans and widows.
You were, of course, thinking of the entire Iriquoian Confederation when you said "Mohawk".
Additional details. SF Gate is the one with their panties in a wad, playing on the horrors of an actual massacre. Wisconsin is not "on edge" over this. It wouldn't have even made the papers were it not for the original Vang murder spree.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=550121
"..taking his Corvette for a joy ride."
If you are a bow hunter, it's more like someone doing missionary work with your wife.
Thanks..
I was being totally sarcastic, dude.
If you'd like to be on or off this Upper Midwest (WI, IA, MN, MI, and anyone else) list, largely rural issues, please FR mail me. And ping me is you see articles of interest.
Better yet we could shoot them. Serves them right for fighting at our side in Southeast Asia
Who would go to the casinos?
And there very well may be a "cultural" misunderstanding aspect to this latest case as well. Things such as private property, game limits, hunting seasons, etc.
He was hunting on public land. In all liklihood there's a victim and a murderer.
Per another thread,Nichols was convicted in Marinette County of several felony burglary charges in 1996. Penalties for federal and state firearms violations and poaching can be added to his life sentence.
Even better some guys plant a bunch of corn and throw out apples by their tree stands. The deer don't just wander by, they come to eat. The hunters then shoot them while they're eating.
Talk about lazy hunters - sitting in adult tree houses.
See the link to threads in post 74, there were dozens on FR, and a Vang ping list for awhile.
He had no bullet wound, most of the hunters he killed were unarmed. Vang, who had skipped on a tresspassing charge in Green county, was tresspassing on the victims land, after being thrown off as a tresspasser the year before. Words ensued, and Vang opened fire.
Again, there are two Vangs; not all the articles in the search list in your link are about this Vang (the one recently shot and killed, and not accused or killing other people).
You can tell from the titles. This story is only a couple days old.
the label of your link is still "Vang incident," rather than the more accurate "Vangs incidents."
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