Crazy. From Five Killed in Hunting Incident in Wisconsin:
A trespassing deer hunter in Wisconsin opened fire without warning on other hunters when they asked him to leave, killing five and wounding three, police said on Monday.Chai Soua Vang, 36, of St. Paul, Minnesota, a member of that city’s Hmong community, emptied his SKS semiautomatic rifle into the hunter who confronted him on Sunday and others who had come to his aid, Sawyer County Sheriff James Meier told a news conference.
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He said Vang apparently got lost, asked for directions and later wandered onto a 400-acre parcel of private land where “he found an empty deer stand and crawled up and occupied it.” Hunters often build platforms called stands from which they watch for deer to appear within shooting range.Meier said a hunter using the land saw Vang in the stand, radioed others in his party and said he was going to ask the intruder to leave. The land owner and others in the party arrived shortly thereafter, the sheriff said, and Vang after walking about 40 yards “turned and he opened fire on the group” after apparently removing the telescopic sight from the rifle.
Four men and one woman were killed. Three other men were wounded, one of whom remained in critical condition on Monday.
One of the victims had noticed the number of the hunting license tag Vang was wearing and scrawled it in dust on an all-terrain vehicle the party was using. That, along with a physical description, led to Vang’s arrest, with the help of two other hunters, when he emerged from the woods later, Meier said.
The magazine and chamber of the rifle Vang was carrying were empty, the sheriff said. The rifle can hold 20 rounds.
In case you weren’t aware, “About 75,000 Hmong have settled in Minnesota in the last 30 years,” as refugees from Laos.