Published in Ventura County Star (CA) - November 23, 2004

KILLING OF SIX HUNTERS BAFFLES LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS

HAYWARD, Wis. -- A Minnesota truck driver confronted for hunting on private land opened fire on mostly unarmed hunters, and then picked off others as they rushed to the bloody scene to help, officials said Monday. Chai Soua Vang, 36, a St. Paul, Minn., resident and former soldier who is married with six children, was arrested five hours after the shooting Sunday. A sixth person, Denny Drew, 55, died Monday of wounds he suffered in the weekend shootings.

Published in Press of Atlantic City, The (NJ) - November 23, 2004

PUBLIC STUNNED BY WISCONSIN HUNT KILLINGS

Hundreds huddled in the dark town square here Monday night to memorialize five hunters - their friends and neighbors - killed in an attack so savage few could speak of it. It was the community's first chance to gather since a trespasser emptied his semiautomatic rifle Sunday into a group of friends out for a Thanksgiving week deer hunt. "We have come here tonight with many emotions," Paul Oman, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church, said.

Published in Houston Chronicle (TX) - November 23, 2004

SIXTH VICTIM IN SHOOTING AT HUNTER'S DEER STAND DIES MANY FEAR MORE HMONG CLASHES WILL BE THE RESULT

HAYWARD, WIS. - Even before the deadly shooting rampage began, one of the hunters had taken note of the license number on the back of Chai Soua Vang's blaze-orange jacket, a detail he scribbled on some dust that covered one of the all-terrain vehicles. Although the hunters planned to use it as part of a trespassing complaint, the number ultimately helped authorities identify Vang, 36, of St. Paul, Minn., as the suspect in a shooting spree Sunday.

Published in Houston Chronicle (TX) - November 24, 2004

SHOOTING SUSPECT BLAMES HUNTERS SAYS GROUP HAD SURROUNDED HIM, ISSUED THREATS, AND ONE OPENED FIRE

ST. PAUL, MINN. - The Hmong-American man being held in the killings of six hunters and the wounding of two others in Wisconsin has told the police that he opened fire after the hunters had cursed him with racial epithets and that one of them had shot at him. The suspect, Chai Soua Vang, made the statement Monday in an interview with police investigators.

Published in Knoxville News-Sentinel, The (TN) - November 28, 2004

SKS ISN'T TRUE ASSAULT RIFLE, WEAPON USED IN KILLING OF SIX DEER HUNTERS IS NOT FULLY AUTOMATIC

In the aftermath of the shooting of eight hunters in Wisconsin it's been widely reported the shooter used an assault rifle that is totally inappropriate for deer hunting. The reports have been wrong on both counts. From the network news to the New York Times it's been reported Chai Soua Vang of St. Paul, Minn., the alleged shooter, used a Yugoslavian SKS semiautomatic rifle to kill six deer hunters and wound two others.

Published in Shawano Leader, March 02, 2005

Attorneys want trial moved for man accused of killing six hunters

HAYWARD -- A Hmong man accused of fatally shooting six deer hunters and wounding two others in northwestern Wisconsin cannot receive a fair trial in Sawyer County because of racial prejudice and overwhelming publicity there, according to documents his attorneys filed in court Tuesday.

Chai Soua Vang's attorneys asked a judge to move the trial out of Sawyer County and to prevent prosecutors from using an alleged confession Vang gave to investigators the day after his arrest, according to their motions filed in Sawyer County Circuit Court.

"Much of the pretrial publicity is adverse to the defendant and includes matters that otherwise may not be admissible at trial, which will necessarily result in a tainted jury pool," the court records said.

Vang, of St. Paul, Minn., has pleaded not guilty to murdering six hunters and wounding two others after a confrontation over trespassing Nov. 21. Vang told investigators one of the white hunters fired the first shot after taunting Vang with racial slurs, a claim two of the survivors denied, according to court records.