Nicolae Miu was named in jail records as the Apple River tubing stabbing suspect in St. Croix County. He also goes by the name Nick Miu.
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Nicolae Miu is identified in jail records as the man accused of stabbing a 17-year-old boy to death and injuring four other people who were tubing on the Wisconsin Apple River, a popular tourist activity in northwest Wisconsin.
Authorities have not released Miu’s name as the suspect. However, jail records give his age as 52 (the age of the suspect), his arrest date as July 30, 2022, and the charges match the incident. On Facebook, Miu, who went by the name Nick Miu, wrote posts in support of gun control, sharing one that read, “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” His profile picture is the American flag.
Miu is accused of one count of first-degree intentional homicide, four counts of mayhem, and four counts of aggravated battery – intend great bodily harm. He lives in Prior Lake, Minnesota, according to online records. Heavy contacted the St. Croix County Jail to obtain the public record mugshot of Nicolae Miu, and jail officials said that would be released via a press release. Authorities previously confirmed that the suspect is from Minnesota.
Officials have not released a motive, but the aunt of some of the victims wrote on Nick Miu’s Facebook page that they were trying to protect younger kids from Miu.
“You stabbed my two nephews and their two friends for trying to protect the younger kids you went after. I hope you rot in prison!” she wrote.
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“Everybody was tubing,” including the victims and suspect. They were “simultaneously going down” the Apple River, St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson said in a July 30, 2022, news conference.
A 52-year-old Minnesota man is in custody, the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Department wrote in a news release and the sheriff confirmed. The suspect’s name and motive have not yet been released.
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According to his Facebook page, which is under the name Nick Miu, Miu “works at Ritchie,” went to Robbinsdale Armstrong Senior High, studied mechanical engineering at South Dakota State University, lives in Prior Lake, Minnesota, and is from Bloomington, Minnesota. He is married.
He works as a design engineer, according to a cache of an old LinkedIn page. Another LinkedIn page, though, says he works in “warranty-technical support” for Ritchie and has worked there for 16 years.
The suspect was with a group of six-eight people, and the victims were in another group. The sheriff said authorities want to interview about 15-20 people. Authorities aren’t sure what started the incident.
“We located five individuals that were suffering from stab wounds,” Knudson said. Four people were transported to a hospital. One person was deceased. The four surviving victims are three males and a female. The sheriff did not have their hometowns.
The tubing area is located in Somerset, Wisconsin.
