Posted on 09/30/2005 2:16:17 PM PDT by Mikey_1962
LA CROSSE, Wis. -- Seth Hammes was filming in the woods when his camcorder recorded the crack of gunshots, the 17-year-old's screams and the voice of the alleged shooter, promising help that never came.
Authorities say they might never have learned what happened to Hammes, who later died in the woods.
"But right next to him was the videotape," Monroe County Sheriff Pete Quirin said Thursday. "That's when we knew we had a homicide on our hands."
After viewing and listening to the tape, police tracked down 24-year-old Russell Schroeder, who now faces charges of reckless homicide and reckless injury. Schroeder was being held on $250,000 bond. If convicted, he faces up to 85 years in prison.
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Stranger than fiction....poor kid.
Thought he was shooting a squirrel? BS!
Horrible story.
Do I understand that he shot him by accident and promised to get help and then didn't? If that is the case then the "accident" turned into "intent" didn't it?
The kid who shot him said he was shooting at a squirrel. He was using a .22 cal, which supports that he was out squirrel hunting, but then again, he shot the guy TWO TIMES, and then left him to die.
Seriously tragic, either way.
Yep.
Instead, authorities say, Schroeder went to a birthday party, home to play video games and then to his job as a custodian at the Army's Fort McCoy near Sparta.
How is that possible when 2nd degree murder gets you 25 to "life"? Sometimes not even 25 years as in the case of serial punk Robert Chambers, and sometimes not even a milli-second as in OJ. If this is an accident like it seems, and he did try to hide it, 85 years which basically means life in prison is insane.
Oh I say fry the kid. I could understand an accidental shooting. But to just leave the guy there to die is worth the fullest penalty.
The bullet holes must've thrown them off...
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