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Chai Vang (September 24, 1968-) is a Hmong American mass murderer who killed 6 people and injured 2 during a hunting trip in Birchwood, Wisconsin.
In his early life, his dad served in a secret war which was funded and organized by the CIA. It recruited Hmong's in Laos to disrupt routes to Vietnam during the Vietnam War, after the U.S withdrew in 1972 Chai and his family managed to escape a genocide. In 1980, him and his siblings relocated to California and Chai moved to Sacramento and enlisted in the California National Guard. In 2000, he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota but a few years later he moved to St. Paul and would later become the father of 6 kids and a hunting enthusiast.
Chai went deer hunting with his 2 friends and their sons in northwest Wisconsin where deer hunting is extremely popular.
On November 21, a hunting party of 15 people took place in a cabin on private land, co-owner Terry Willers noticed Chai in a hunting stand near the cabin and radioed to ask if he was allowed to be there. After being told no, Terry confronted Chai telling him to leave, he apologized and headed south towards a trail in a forested area of the property. Guests inside the cabin got on their ATV's and went after Chai confronting him, during the confrontation he snapped and fired at them with a Saiga Rifle, one of the wounded later died in the hospital. Chai fled the scene on foot leaving ammo behind, he later came across a hunter (who didn't know about the shooting) and he drove him to his