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...accused shooter is Chai Soua Vang, a Hmong refugee from Laos who lives in nearby St. Paul, Minn. Vang, 36, is in custody in Hayward, Wis., and was expected to be charged formally this week by the state's attorney general. In a statement to police the day after the shootings, Vang admitted to killing the hunters after being confronted when he trespassed on property owned by two of them. In fact, much of his statement matches the one given by Lauren Hesebeck, 48, a wounded hunter who survived and the first victim to talk about the incident. Both...
...Vang came to the U.S. in 1980, settling first in Stockton, Calif., and serving six years in the California Army National Guard, where he qualified as a sharpshooter. After moving three years ago to St. Paul, where he lives with his wife and six children, he worked as a truck driver. Among the local habits he enthusiastically adopted was deer hunting, applying for and receiving a hunting license for the past four years. Hunting was a fundamental part of Hmong life in Laos, where it was done quite differently: there were no prescribed hunting seasons and rarely any delineations between...
...Vang was ticketed for trespassing while hunting in Green Lake County, Wis.--an incident that ended peacefully when Vang left the property after being asked to do so. When a similar situation unfolded on Nov. 21, however, hunters became the hunted. Vang was looking for deer in Sawyer County, a rugged, boggy and thickly wooded area. He was carrying an SKS semiautomatic rifle, a legal deer-hunting weapon but an uncommon one because it isn't particularly powerful. Vang says he was lost when he stumbled upon and climbed onto a deer stand, a structure about 10 ft. high that...
...July 28, a traveling salesman from Laos left Bangkok for asylum in the U.S. Va Char Yang, 38, now lives in Oroville, California, with his wife, Mai Vang, and three small children. A year earlier, in Laos, he had been sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes including possession of illegal explosives and drugs. At the time, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that the trial fell "well short of international standards of jurisprudence." Va Char had been arrested while escorting two European journalists and their American Hmong translator out of the jungle in Xaysomboune Special Zone...
...calling card pinned to one of the corpses indicated the deaths were the work of Hmong rebels. And on April 20, gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus, killing at least 13 people. Eyewitnesses to this massacre say the gunmen spoke to one another in the Hmong language. Vang Pao angrily denies claims that his men are responsible for attacks on civilians. "In the past there have been several events like this that have taken place and been blamed on the ULLF," he says. "But it was not us. We believe it was organized by the government using Hmong people...