US teenager killed in stabbings on Wisconsin river, 4 other people wounded | World News

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A Minnesota teen died and 4 other folks ended up very seriously harm right after staying stabbed whilst tubing down a Wisconsin river, authorities claimed.

St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson the victims and suspect, a fifty two-yr-aged Prior Lake, Minnesota person, ended up all on the Apple River when the assault took place Saturday afternoon. Knudson claimed investigators ended up performing to establish what led to the stabbings and whether or not the victims and suspect realized every single other. They ended up tubing with two diverse teams that integrated about twenty folks.

“We do not know nevertheless who was related to who, who realized every single other or what precipitated it,” Knudson claimed.

The knife assault took place on a tough-to-accessibility segment of the river in close proximity to the city of Somerset, Wisconsin, which is about 35 miles (fifty six kilometers) east of Minneapolis. The suspect was arrested about an hour and a fifty percent later on whilst receiving off the river downstream.

“Thank goodness a witness experienced taken a photograph of him,” Knudson explained to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “Another witness situated him at the exit of the tubing location, wherever he was taken into custody.”

A seventeen-yr-aged boy from Stillwater, Minnesota, died. Two of the other victims ended up flown to a medical center in St. Paul, Minnesota, and two other people ended up taken there by ambulance. The sheriff's business office claimed Sunday that the situation of all 4 surviving victims — a lady and a few males in their 20s — ranged from critical to important. They endured stab wounds to their chests and torsos.

The sheriff's business office did not identify the victims, but did give a number of specifics about them. The victims integrated a twenty-yr-aged person and a 22-yr-aged person from Luck, Wisconsin a 22-yr-aged person from Elk River, Minnesota and a 24-yr-aged lady from Burnsville, Minnesota

The identify of the suspect was not instantly unveiled, but St. Croix County jail information demonstrate a fifty two-yr-aged person was staying held without having bond on suspicion of 1st-diploma murder, 4 counts of aggravated battery and 4 counts of mayhem.