Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Wisconsin Hmong-hunter clashes end with murder charge

The body of squirrel hunter Cha Vang, age 30, was found on January 6th, a day after his friends had reported him missing. When James Nichols, 28, appeared at a local hospital suffering from a gunshot wound, sherrif deputies arrested him for Vang's murder. Nichols had previously been charged with breaking into a cabin and spray-painting "KKK" on its walls.

Racially charged killings among white and Hmong hunters in Wisconsin seems to be growing more popular than hunting game itself. It has been just two years since another Hmong deer hunter shot and killed six white hunters, claiming that they had shot at him first and shouted racial epithets.

Source: The Associated Press.

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