Chai Vang – Wiki, Bio, Age, Wife, Net Worth

Vang, who lived in Saint Paul, Minnesota at the time of the shootings, is imprisoned at the Anamosa State Penitentiary, as of 2006.

The trial of Chai Soua Vang began Saturday, September 10, 2005 in Sawyer County Courthouse. All fourteen jurors were selected from Dane County, Wisconsin, and bused about 280 miles (450 km) northwest to Sawyer County, where they were sequestered.

On September 16, 2005, Chai Soua Vang was found guilty of all six charges of first degree intentional homicide and three charges of attempted homicide by a jury of eight women and four men. On November 8, 2005, he was sentenced to six consecutive life terms plus seventy years (forty for two counts of attempted homicide plus five additional years for each count of homicide in the first degree); a sentence of life without parole. At the time, Wisconsin was one of 12 states in the United States that did not have the death penalty.

Sometime around 2000, Vang and his family moved to the Twin Cities Capital City of St. Paul, neighboring Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Vang’s father served in a secret war that was funded and organized by the CIA that recruited the Hmong in Laos to disrupt supply routes going from Laos to Vietnam during the Vietnam War. General Vang Pao was the leader of this army and was seen as a father figure to the Hmong. After the United States made the decision to withdraw troops in 1972, Vang and his family escaped the Hmong genocide that was ordered by Pathet Lao to “exterminate the Hmong down to the last root” in retaliation for the Hmong assisting the United States. Many Hmong were able to make it to the U.S. however thousands of the Hmong were left behind and were killed. Vang and his siblings relocated to the United States in 1980 and settled in California. Vang lived in Sacramento and eventually enlisted in the California National Guard.

Chai Soua Vang (born September 24, 1968) is a naturalized Hmong American from Laos who was convicted of murder, but claimed self defense. Vang, a six-year veteran of the California National Guard, shot eight people while on a hunting trip in northern Wisconsin on November 21, 2004; six were killed and two were wounded.