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Shootings spark ethnic controversy in northern Wisconsin

Nearly two weeks after the hunting rampage that left six dead and two wounded, residents in the small northern Wisconsin town of Rice Lake are still struggling to cope with the reality of the tragedy. The eight victims were all widely known throughout the close-knit community of 8,500, and now survivors, friends and family members are questioning how such an atrocity could ever occur in a town that up until the shootings had seen only one homicide in the last year.