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.
Could have told you that. I grew up in Asia. I am sick and tired of Americans who know nothing and don't want to learn anything. Then, they get in leadership positions. Then, they let millions of immigrants come in who have no business living here and do NOT share our values. Then, everyone gets upset when something like this happens.
Think this might bring back the death penalty?.......
Not in a state like Wisconsin which in other ways is a pretty honest and decently run state. People in Wisc. believe too much in the perfectibility of all men and won't admit to real evil and punish it accordingly.
Hmong.
Nope, I don't own any long guns. My brother had something that I *thought* was an SKS, that actually looked somewhat like a military weapon with a ten-round magazine, and he'd told me that it was pretty much a piece of junk, but he still took it with him if the remote burglar alarm went off at night in his business down the hill from his house. I guess I got my guns mixed up.
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Sorry, still in class mode. American YOUTH don't want to learn much. If they would read and try to stay up with what is going on -- I've given them the FR link, they would know about these cultures. I know those individuals are NOT responsible for the fellow going psycho.
He is an unremorseful, cold-blooded killer. The Vietnamese in the same situation are identical. People should learn the background of some of these peoples and INSIST that they be deported. We do NOT need their religious values, rather lack of religious values, here.
Russian
Chinese
The Russian, Yugo, East German, and some Chinese rifles were made for actual military use, and tend to be of fairly high quality. Some Chinese rifles were made specifically for export to the USA, and are often of lesser quality. The internal parts on some of the Chinese rifles, particularly in the gas system, are not as robust as in the Russian rifles.
Then there's my M1 ... Now that's quality manufacture.
Ah, the good ol' days. I recall walking out of a gunshow in MD with a "brand-new" SKS and 1000 rds, for under $150. There was a significant "cooling off" period, though, of about five hours ... cleaning the cosmoline off of it. Gack! I wore a ratty T-shirt and busted up sweatpants ... which went straight to the trash when I was done.
Guilty on 6 counts murder, 3 counts attempted murder.
http://crime.about.com/b/a/203191.htm
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