A 52-year-old Minnesota man has been jailed after a deadly stabbing on a Wisconsin river that left a 17-year-old child dead and four others critically injured.
On Saturday, July 30, the party went tubing down the Apple River close to Somerset in western Wisconsin, not far from the Minnesota border.
They were attacked at around 3:45 p.m. by a member of what the St. Croix County sheriffs believe to be another tubing group of six to eight people. Police are hoping to speak with the 15 to 20 persons who were river tubing at the time because the reason for the attack is yet unknown.
At the remote site, Sheriff Scott Knudson characterized the scenario as “chaotic, dangerous.” “Anyone who saw this will, I’m sure, never forget it. It is tragic, ” he added.
Investigators are still searching for the murder weapon because the suspect did not have the knife on him when he was found about a mile downstream from the location of the crime. Knudson asserted that the assailant was captured on camera by someone, allowing investigators to recognize him and leading to his arrest an hour after the stabbing.
Knudson claims that following the incident, other tubers began offering first aid and assisting the victims.
Two victims of the stabbing were flown to a hospital in a helicopter, while two more were taken there in an ambulance. They were all seriously injured and had bodily abrasions. Three of the victims are men, and one is a woman. According to Knudson, they were all in their early twenties.
