17-year-old MN teen killed in stabbings on Wisconsin river (Update)

Update 4:15 PM Monday:

A 52-year-old Minnesota man was charged today (Mon) with killing a teenager and stabbing four other people in a dispute that allegedly began with a lost cellphone during a weekend tubing excursion on a western Wisconsin river.

Investigators allege that Nicolae Miu, of Prior Lake (MN) attacked the group after people accused him of approaching children in the water.

Miu told investigators that he had acted in self-defense.

He faces one count of first-degree intentional homicide and four counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide in St. Croix County, which sits along Wisconsin’s border with Minnesota.

The family of the victim who died has identified him as 17-year-old Isaac Schuman, of Stillwater, Minnesota.

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Update 2:45 PM Monday

A 52-year-old Minnesota man has been charged in a weekend stabbing attack on people who were tubing on a river in western Wisconsin, including a teenager who was killed and four other people who were wounded. Nicolae Miu, of Prior Lake, Minnesota, is charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide and four counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide in St. Croix County, which sits along Wisconsin’s border with Minnesota. The judge set bond at $1 million cash for Miu, who appeared at the hearing by video. The family of the victim who died has identified him as 17-year-old Isaac Schuman, of Stillwater, Minnesota. He would have been a high school senior this fall.

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Original post:

A 17-year-old boy from Stillwater, Minnesota died and four other people were seriously hurt after they were stabbed while tubing down a Wisconsin river Saturday afternoon. St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson said the attack happened around 3:45 p.m. Saturday near the town of Somerset, Wisconsin, which is about 35 miles east of Minneapolis. A 52-year-old man from Prior Lake, Minnesota was arrested afterward when he was getting off the river downstream. Two of the victims were flown to a hospital for treatment and two others were taken by ambulance. The sheriff’s office said Sunday their conditions ranged from serious to critical. The names of the victims and the suspect were not immediately released.

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