MSNBC
"HAYWARD, Wis. - Relatives of a man being held in the deadly shooting of six deer hunters say they are just as stunned and bewildered by the incident as authorities investigating the case.
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Thick glass prevented Chai Vang from any contact with family members during a brief visit Monday at Sawyer County Jail. They spoke via telephone, mixing English with the native language of Hmong immigrants from Laos.
“I still don’t believe it,” the suspect’s brother, Sang Vang, said. “He is one of the nicest persons. ... Maybe something provoked him or something. He is a reasonable person.”
Charges had not been filed against 36-year-old Chai Vang, of St. Paul, Minn., as of Monday night.
Vang is accused of opening fire on several hunters Sunday with a semiautomatic assault rifle, leaving six people dead and two wounded, authorities said..."
This was on our local news as well and a previous article that I read gives more details as to the incident itself. Apparently this man had trespassed on private property to hunt in a deer stand. When confronted by the property owners he opened fire on them with his SKS semi-automatic rifle. He had supposedly become lost and wandered onto nearby property. His relatives say that he's an avid hunter. His relatives are saying that this was racially provoked while the witnesses said that the confrontation was a calm one until he opened fire on the other hunters (who btw had only 1 gun among them at the moment).
My opinion of this is based on current events in our area. The Wausau area is importing Hmong immigrants to our area in hopes of improving public opinion of our area. They've already imported over 1,000 and intend to bring about that many again. I'm using conservative numbers because I can't remember the specifics. Since they've started bringing these immigrants in we've seen a number of racial gangs spring up in the Wausau area. Wausau offers classes in English and other things to help these people become more naturalized. They don't seem to have enough classes to accomodate though. Almost any store you go into in Wausau it seems you can hear people speaking in other asian languages instead of English. They just had an article about the Hmong not understanding our hunting laws in this country. I personally feel that our area is doing these people an injustice by bringing in more than they can accomodate educationally. If these people were able (through enough classes offered) and willing to learn English they would be able to read the "No Trespassing" signs and they would be able to read our laws.
I tend to feel resentful of some of the Hmong in our area because many of them use welfare and don't bother to learn our language. If our taxes are going to help them live in our country the least they can do is learn to speak our language and follow our laws. At the very least not open fire our our residents on who's property they trespassed.