Hmong Hunter Murdered in Wisconsin?
The body of a missing Hmong Hunter was recovered in the public hunting area where his friends reported him missing. Shortly after he disappeared another hunter showed up at a local emergency room with what authorities are reporting as a self inflected gunshot wound. Authorities believe these two incidents are connected.
“We got a missing hunter. We got a guy in the hospital with a gunshot wound to his hand. He showed up a half-hour after we got this call that we’ve got a missing hunter,” said Kanikula, who was sworn in last week.
“The long and short of it is our investigators are sharp. They went to talk to this guy. His story changed three or four times. It’s just a matter of good investigation.”
Search dog lead searchers to the hidden body of the Hmong hunter and they are waiting for autopsy
Searchers with a tracking dog could not find Cha Vang, 30, Friday night after his hunting companions reported him missing. Shortly after the search resumed Saturday morning, Vang’s body was found concealed in the Peshtigo Harbor Wildlife Area, though Marinette County Sheriff James Kanikula declined to say how the body was hidden.
One can’t help but wonder if the death of this man is somehow related to the infamous murder case a few years ago where a Hmong man murdered a group of deer hunters. The racial tension has been strong especially since that incident. One would hope that racial prejudices would not lead to a murder in this day and age in America. No matter what happens a family lost a son, father and husband.
Cool story brotha. Wish you could have got one, after all the head ache. T.
[...] A follow up to my earlier post about the death of a Hmong hunter. The autopsy confirms early speculation that this past weekend’s death of a hunter was in fact a murder. The Marinette County sheriff said that an accidental meeting between two men hunting small game led to one of them being killed this weekend. Sheriff Jim Kanikula said that an autopsy conducted on Monday confirmed that Cha Vang, 30, of Green Bay, was a victim of a homicide, although he declined to be more specific. [...]
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