Wisconsin Says Goodbye to Slain Hunters

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U.S. National - AP

Wisconsin Says Goodbye to Slain Hunters

11/27/2004

By JENNY PRICE, Associated Press Writer

RICE LAKE, Wis. - Robert Crotteau and his son Joseph, who worked together and spent much of their free time enjoying the outdoors together, were mourned together Saturday, days after both were killed in a confrontation with a hunter trespassing on their land.


"To say they were two peas in a pod is an understatement, without question," said Steve Crotteau, Robert's younger brother, during the funeral at St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

Robert Crotteau, 42, and his 20-year-old son were among six hunters killed and two wounded in a bloody confrontation that shocked neighbors in Rice Lake, a northwestern Wisconsin town of 8,500 people.

The man accused in the shootings, Chai Vang, 36, of St. Paul, Minn., remained in the Sawyer County Jail in lieu of $2.5 million bail Saturday awaiting formal charges.

Robert and Joseph Crotteau worked at a concrete and construction business in Haugen that the elder Crotteau owned.

Alex Drost, a friend of Joseph Crotteau, reminisced Saturday about the time he and other friends spent hunting and snowmobiling.

"We are going to miss Joe's smile, his laugh, every comment he had to make," Drost said during the funeral.

Vang, a Hmong immigrant, told authorities the hunters surrounded him and used racial slurs before one fired a shot at him. One of the survivors said Vang fired the first shot.

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1. ironic that hunters

were killed by an assault rifle.

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[Conservativesux]

2. I find it hard to understand why the WI Fish & Game dept..

...allows weapons like these to be use in hunting at all.

I mean, if these hunters miss, do they just open up and lay waste to everything in the direction of the animal, and endanger other hunters with all the bullets flying?

I think the laws in California, where I live, only allow for a few bullets, three or four, while hunting, not 20 or 30 like this man in WI had in his assualt weapon.

[diplomats]

3. And our "Christian" president

failed to extend the assault weapons ban.....:thumbsdown:

[Retired AF Dem]

4. The SKS rifle was not covered by the AWB

But why let facts get in the way.

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5. Thank you****

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6. Are you saying he wouldn't have been as successful...

with a Browning .270?