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Chai Vang died at a hospital, Wisconsin officials confirmed Friday.
A St. Paul man convicted in Wisconsin’s 2004 tree stand killings has died in custody.
Wisconsin corrections officials said Friday that 57-year-old Chai Vang died at a hospital.
Vang was serving six life sentences in the case.
The shootings happened Nov. 21, 2004, on private hunting land south of Hayward near Exeland. Six hunters were killed and two others were wounded.
Prosecutors said the group confronted Vang for trespassing before he opened fire. Vang claimed he acted in self-defense.
A jury convicted him in 2005 of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted homicide.
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