Wings of a Bird

Wisconsin Struggles to Make Sense of Shootings
Twenty-four years ago, a youth named Chai Soua Vang was part of the first wave of immigrants from Laos who came to the United States after the Indochina war. He later married, worked as a truck driver, fathered six children, learned to speak English fluently and became a U.S. citizen. On Sunday, according to the police, he shot eight hunters in a bloody spree that has left the region dumbfounded. ... a couple of the hunters had discovered Vang in their private hunting platform and asked him to leave. He did so, but after walking 120 feet, or about 35 meters, he suddenly stopped. "For some apparent reason, he turned around and opened fire," Meier said. "The action makes no sense." Vang told the police that he had opened fire after the hunters had cursed him with racial epithets and that one of them had shot at him. ...