Sheriff: 3 dead at Wisconsin quarry
were shot over $600 debt
Posted By: voxpopuli, 7/29/2021 7:09:23 PM
Three men who were found dead last week at the entrance of a Wisconsin quarry were forced to kneel on the ground before they were shot multiple times over a $600 debt, officials said Thursday. Khamthaneth Rattanasack, 44, and Nya Thao, 33, have each been charged with three counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. (snip) The next day, someone in Minneapolis contacted the La Crosse County Sheriff’s Office with information about the slayings. That person told authorities that the killings were over a $600 debt
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Three men who were found dead last week at the entrance of a Wisconsin quarry were forced to kneel on the ground before they were shot multiple times over a $600 debt, officials said Thursday.
Khamthaneth Rattanasack, 44, and Nya Thao, 33, have each been charged with three counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. (snip) The next day, someone in Minneapolis contacted the La Crosse County Sheriff’s Office with information about the slayings. That person told authorities that the killings were over a $600 debt
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'Unacceptable' But 'Understandable' 27 replies
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A Coptic Christian church was recently burned to the ground—not in Egypt, where the torching of Coptic churches is not an uncommon occurrence, but in Canada, also known as “the church-burning centre of the Western world.”
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more Swedes and Norwegians getting in trouble..