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Hunting Dispute Monday November 22, 2004 3:46 PM AP Photo WXS105 By JOSHUA FREED Associated Press Writer BIRCHWOOD, Wis. A 36-year-old man was arrested Sunday afternoon when he came out of the w oods, sheriff's officials said. Deputy Jake Hodgkinson identified the suspect as Chai Vang but would give no details. The shooting started when two hunters returning to their rural cabin on p rivate land saw the suspect in one of their hunting platforms in a tree, Sawyer County Chief Deputy Tim Zeigle said. Hunters often build platfor ms in trees in order to be able to view prey and shoot from a high angle . Both of those hunters were wounded and one of them radioed friends at the cabin a quarter-mile away. Other members of their group responded and t hey also were shot, he said. Zeigle said the suspect was chasing after them and killing them,'' with a SKS 762 mm semiautomatic rifle, a common hunting weapon. Wisconsin's statewide deer gun hunting season started Saturday and lasts for nine d ays. About 20 shots were fired but it was unclear if any of the hunters had fi red at the suspect or who might have shot first, Zeigle said. There was just one gun among the eight people killed or wounded, he said. The dead included a a teenage boy and a woman, and a father and son, Zeig le said. All five were fro m the Rice Lake area, about 15 miles southwest of Birchwood in the north western part of the state, he said. Authorities found two bodies near each other and the others were scattere d over 100 yards. The suspect, who did not have a compass, got lost in the woods and two ot her hunters who didn't know about the shootings helped him find his way out, Zeigle said. The man was arrested when he emerged from the woods and a Department of N atural Resources officer recognized the deer license on his back from a description given by one of the shooting victims, Zeigle said. One of the injured hunters was in critical condition at St. Another was listed in serious condition and the third was in fair condition, both at Lakeview Medical Center. Hunter Bill Wagner, 72, of Oshkosh, was about two miles away near Deer La ke with a party of about 20 other hunters when they heard sirens, planes and helicopters and discovered roads in the area had been barricaded. When you're hunting you don't expect somebody to try to shoot you and m urder you,'' Wagner said. We wouldn't go home b ecause of this, but we will keep it in our minds.
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