Posted on 11/24/2004 7:54:57 PM PST by Dr Snide
Story about the woman killed by Vang last weekend
http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=128727
Here you go.....
http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=128727
This lady sure doesn't sound like that type of person that would hurl racial slurs or hang around with anyone who does like this murderous animal is claiming.
the link isn't working for me. Is there a special trick to making it work? It appears some of the others posting here have read the story, so I'm sure it's working for some people.
perhaps FR had a hiccup. After mashing it 5 or 6 times the story finally came up.
Sorry for the inconvienence.
Sorry, worked for me. Don't know what the problem could be.
By Ray Barrington
News-Chronicle
They called her "Jessifer" and knew she'd be dependable. She danced at their weddings and was getting ready for her own.
Now, her former co-workers wear ribbons and think of the friend they lost, the one with the great smile and the "interesting giggle."
Jessica Willers, 27, was a member of the surgical services staff at Aurora BayCare Hospital, working with the heart surgery unit. She had been there since January 2003.
Last week, her friends on the unit listened to her talk about her upcoming deer hunting weekend.
"She'd been talking about it for a very long time," said Whitney Toole, another surgical technician who was a close friend of Willers. "She's been a hunter since she could go out and hunt with her dad. She was going to take her hunting gear off the line Thursday when she left work."
"You'd look at Jess, you'd agree with all of us that she didn't look like a hunter, whatever a hunter's supposed to look like," added Penny Gregorie, supervisor of surgical services at the facility. "She had beautiful curly long blond hair, a very vibrant smile - you'd look at Jess and you wouldn't think she'd go out in the woods and get dirty, break a nail or hunt a deer." But Monday, they got the word she was one of five - now six - victims in a strange shooting in Sawyer County over a dispute about a tree stand.
"I believe it was somewhere around 11 o'clock yesterday when we heard from Jess's fiancee, Craig," said Gregoire. "He wanted the people who cared about her to know before it was on the news."
Staff in the department wore ribbons in her memory Tuesday - blaze orange and green for her love of hunting and the outdoors.
"Jessica always had a smile on her face," said Renee Basten, who worked with Willers in the cardiac unit. "You could always count on her to help out. She was what we call a team player. And with our small department, you need that."
Tuesday, those left behind worked at their jobs with her in mind. A board in the unit was there to collect photographs of Willers, and a memorial service was in the planning stages.
"This has been very sudden and it's hard on the department," said Jane Kusler-Jensen, director of surgical services. "Our department is exceptional that they've maintained their composure and has continued to give good care. Because we've chosen a helping profession, we use our work to grieve."
Pastoral care and employee assistance programs have been in place, staff said.
Surgical technicians help prepare the operating room and break things down when the surgery is completed, as well as doing such things as suturing openings and otherwise assisting in the procedure. The heart surgery team consists of 10 to 12 people.
"She loved what she did, she loved helping people," said Gregorie.
And that, they have no doubt, is what she was doing when she died. "If I know Jess, she was going there to help," said Gregorie.
A fund has been created to help the families of the victims . Donations can be mailed to: Hunters Survivors & Victims Fund, c/o Dairy State Bank, 16 S. Main St., Rice Lake, WI 54868
I just have this image of her running up there to help as a nurse only to be murdered by this punk. sigh, I hope I'm not depressing anyone before Thanksgiving. Maybe I'll go finish putting up my Christmas tree.
You don't deer hunt with a 20 round mag in an SKS. I'll bet the guy didn't even have a legal hunting license or deer stamp.
"A time for everything under the sun...A time to mourn..."
They'll all be in our thoughts and prayers tomorrow anyway.
Considering the fact that he got lost after he killed those guys...and had to be helped out of the woods...I don't think he was much of a hunter. He went off by himself...a loner situation....I doubt that he has many friends...just his cultural wife. He can't get the death sentence up there...so he'll spend a few months in the prison before someone kills him in the shower.
Thanks for posting that! I live in NE MN and saw it live, too.
Question is, "Is Vang really a deer hunter?" I don't think so.
Businessmen...family men..and a well liked and a young woman engaged to be married
I have known a few businessmen from Rice Lake and many from north Central WI including my grandfather, uncles, my grade school through high school friends, and their parents..
Businessmen ..good business men...are always thinking 'customer service' and 'public relations'.. they don't often get into fights or demonstrations they don't lose their tempers and begin screaming racial invectives, shoot at, or threaten people...it isn't good public relations..and good public relations means sales...it is against their natures and instincts to behave in such ways...
These folks were farm-town folks..rural.. country folks...most born and raised in the Rice Lake area...
They are not hicks..nor are they rednecks as the MSM and Gannet socialist news service papers smear them to be or at least hint in that direction...
Mr. Vang has held out of state deer tags for the last 6 to 8 yrs....I wonder just how many deer Mr. Vang has actually bagged?
He may very well be linked to another deer hunter murder a few years back outside of Neilsville, WI...a local hunter was shot twice in the back and his rifle taken by the murderer or murderers...a late model Toyota care with three asian men were seen near the murder scene a short while after the murder is thought to have occured...
After reading his confession and comparing it to what I know of the business people of Rice Lake and other WI small towns...IMO Vang is a liar..and nothing but a cold bloodied killer...
It will be interesting to see how many of the Hmong people will sympathize with the grieving fiancee or the widows and orphans or stick their bogus insinuations of Vang being insulted and harassed so badly that he just had to chase down unarmed men and a woman and murder them..
IMO
yet another article on family members from U.W.-Eau Claire. Tough read.
http://www.spectatornews.com/news/814829.html?mkey=830203
Actually I have taken deer with an AR15 a Steyr AUG and an HK-91 and in the same area as a deer hunter was murdered in three years ago..
It appears as though carrying extra mags and ammo is a good idea...you never know what awaits you in the woods...or who...
Be Prepared...have a plan....
I think now folks should be encouraged to wear kevlar body armor with ballistic plates
Do we know that he's not an american citizen?
He had a valid license and the SKS comes standard with a ten round. (Still illegal in most states for deer hunting) You can get a 20 round fixed mag for one. I believe he had the ten round because one of the victims said he reloaded and according to police reports shot a total of 20 rounds. I will go back and reread the police report.
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