How A Day on the River Ended in Terror

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00:00Two summers ago, a confrontation on the Apple River turned what was an idyllic day tubing with friends into a

00:06chaotic horror.

00:07He punched me in the face. I don't know what the...

00:10We're doing CPR in one day, 27 meters.

00:13It was July 30th, 2022, along the Apple River near Somerset, Wisconsin.

00:18Witnesses described a chaotic scene when a man got into an argument with several people while on the river.

00:24If I would do this, that's true. I'm seeing just underneath it. You can flag down the table.

00:40We have to take the river down.

00:46He punched me in the face. I don't know what the...

00:49He's just got her out in the open.

00:51Okay.

01:00Are you stabbed?

01:01No, I am okay.

01:03Okay.

01:03They're coming with another link.

01:05He's stabbed.

01:07One more person stabbed. Two more people have sent.

01:10I believe one of the people...

01:11There's two down there yet.

01:13Okay.

01:14So, going on that band, you're like four.

01:18It's shallow water.

01:19Oh, s**t.

01:21Thanks, man.

01:22I don't go on the water enough.

01:24Thanks, brother.

01:25This is my first time.

01:27It's crazy.

01:28Oh, these are not waterproof.

01:31Can you get down there?

01:34Yeah.

01:34Right there, his intestines are completely out in the water.

01:37Completely out.

01:39He's...

01:39You might be dead by there.

01:40How far at?

01:41Right there by the yellow shirt.

01:43Double shirt.

01:44You guys, the yellow shirt.

01:44He's right there.

01:45The yellow shirt is all black.

01:47He's dead.

01:48Right there.

01:48You got one individual slipped from here to his chest.

01:51His guts are exposed.

01:52The other one is still stabbing in the chest.

01:54We get one stabbing in the infidgetary.

01:56Three down there?

01:57Yes, sir.

01:58We got three individuals down the river.

02:00Significant stabbing.

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03:10giving you an in-depth look at what led to the incident.

03:13The other person was down, their valve was open.

03:17The other person, their lung is popped.

03:20Okay, how deep?

03:22Uh, not deep?

03:25It's bleeding bad.

03:26The person with ball drought, he's about to lose consciousness.

03:28All right.

03:28They're doing CPR on the one who's lung is popped.

03:30Right here.

03:31The one.

03:33Is he on the other side of the river?

03:34Oh, no, it's on the other side.

03:35Right down here.

03:36Right there.

03:37Right next to each other.

03:39All right, you want to help me out here?

03:40Yeah, sure.

03:40Thank you, sir.

03:41Where's the guy?

03:45Not right here.

03:47Okay, where's the stabber?

03:49I don't know.

03:49I've been asking for instructions.

03:50Nobody knows.

03:52We all get into it.

04:00Ryan, can we use this in two parts and take both of them?

04:04Yep.

04:04Here we go.

04:05We're going to solve CPR.

04:07That's good.

04:08All right.

04:09Open the domino bone.

04:12I'm going to get you out.

04:14AJ, you got this.

04:16I'm going to take you.

04:17Hold on.

04:18Here we go.

04:23I'm going to go straight and ride around.

04:3136 to 19.

04:48I just talked to the rescue.

04:49They're working on getting the boat into the water and up to you guys.

04:53The road under the bridge continues up along the riverbank.

04:57If you can get guys, head that way and try to set up a perimeter possibly.

05:02The road isn't that far from the river though.

05:06Good job.

05:06Be off the phone right.

05:07AJ, you move on, okay?

05:09Hey!

05:09I didn't take this one after him.

05:11I think he's up there.

05:11You get out of there!

05:12Get out!

05:13Get out!

05:25Hey, where are you guys going?

05:26You'll find the mother fucker.

05:28What?

05:28We need to know what it looks like.

05:29We got a lot of cops in the area.

05:30What does he look like?

05:31I don't f***ing know.

05:3236 to 19.

05:35Hey, we got a canine coming.

05:36We can't track him if you guys tear up the whole central.

05:39Suspect went into the woods at the initial location.

05:41A quarter mile upriver from the 64 bridge.

05:44He went out right here?

05:45They don't know.

05:46No one knows.

05:48They said this region.

05:49They don't know exactly where.

05:51Okay.

05:51I have these two trauma bandages.

05:53I got a tourniquet and some quick clot.

05:56Z-bolt.

05:56Where are you guys?

05:56His guts are hanging out.

05:57The other one, I haven't been over to that one yet.

05:59Let's throw that on.

06:00Here.

06:00We're a quarter mile upriver from the bridge.

06:02We can see the squads.

06:04One.

06:04No vitals.

06:06Keep firing progress.

06:07And we have one subject with, uh,

06:09stables and chest.

06:11Keep firing progress.

06:1410-4-3 victims.

06:151-10-1 mile upriver.

06:17Yeah, nice to get some witnesses.

06:19I started asking if there's cell phone footage.

06:22One thought.

06:23One guy back there had it, yeah.

06:26Where did he go?

06:28I told him to stay by.

06:29He's by the squads.

06:29He just got the video.

06:30I'm so tired, man.

06:32I'm sorry, man.

06:32What was the guy wearing?

06:33Huh?

06:34What was the guy wearing?

06:35He was just wearing it.

06:36I can't even almost think about it, man.

06:37I was a little sorry.

06:38Yeah.

06:38Man, I can't believe it.

06:40We're my best friends.

06:41I cannot believe it.

06:45This is so...

06:47I just need to talk to you after, okay, man?

06:48Just chill out every second, right?

06:50Yeah, I'm sorry, man.

06:51Just, yeah, it's a shit hit.

06:52I know.

06:53Is he okay?

06:54We're working on that.

06:55I'm sorry, bro.

06:56We see them, man.

06:58We looked in his face, bro.

06:59He's not okay.

07:01Hey, what about putting him on a...

07:03What about putting him on a tube and floating him down to the medics?

07:05Come on, Mike.

07:06Come on, Isaac.

07:09Come on, Mike.

07:10Come on, Isaac.

07:15Suspect adult male, approximately 50 years of age, wearing some trunks and yellow shirt.

07:19Described as a Russian and a citizen.

07:22Here we go, AJ.

07:23We're getting you out of here, man.

07:26This is my first.

07:27Yeah, they're here.

07:28Take care.

07:28Oh, my God.

07:29They got him.

07:30They got him.

07:32Another group.

07:33They're coming.

07:34Help, help.

07:36Wait, wait, wait, wait.

07:37Just wait for them.

07:37We're going to turn it to the whole thermometer that way.

07:39Just to roll away.

07:40Come on, Mike.

07:42You can't do it.

07:43You can't do it.

07:45Sacred County dispatch to Minnesota agencies responding in the sacred county.

07:50Again, repeating if we can start working on a perimeter area.

07:53Minnesota agencies responding in the sacred county.

07:57Again, repeating if we can start working on a perimeter area.

08:00All right?

08:00Yeah.

08:01All right.

08:03This guy that only had the smaller stab wound in his belly, that guy, tells me that he had

08:09like a buck knife and said it was no longer than like this.

08:13But he said he just kind of came out of nowhere and pushed his brother and then

08:17everything got to be a blur.

08:19Yeah.

08:20Can you check on that guy walking?

08:21Apparently he's bald, gold chain, big deer belly, 230 plus.

08:27Do you want to get in with the boat on the water?

08:30I want any boat I can find.

08:32Who have we pushed up the road here?

08:35Have we pushed anybody up the road here yet?

08:37Washbro's coming.

08:38Washbro's coming.

08:39I'm coming to line 170 yet.

08:41Are you up river still?

08:41Mitch is coming.

08:42Hopefully to get up to this area.

08:43That's where you were located.

08:44We're talking about I and Sunrise.

08:46You can get those witnesses down to here.

08:4927 here.

08:51Your message isn't going through.

08:52Some guy spotted a guy walking in the ditch.

08:55I'm on the road.

08:56Copy.

08:56I'll see if I can get him to walk out.

08:57Just get him alive.

08:59Grown man, try to ask him little girls.

09:01Who the hell?

09:03What the hell?

09:07Cell phone footage from the scene shows the suspect,

09:11Nikolai Mew, being confronted by a group of tubers,

09:14including 17-year-old Isaac Schumann of Stillwater.

09:18Witnesses say the group was initially trying to intervene

09:21after Mew had allegedly been bothering young women in the area.

09:24Moments later, Mew pulled out a knife.

09:28What is he on?

09:30Whoa.

09:31Whoa.

09:32Whoa.

09:33Hey, whoa.

09:34Get away.

09:35Get away from us.

09:37Oh, I'm driving.

09:39We up.

09:40We up, homie.

09:41What are you talking about?

09:42What the hell are you talking about?

09:47What?

09:49Get away from us.

09:50What?

09:51What are you doing?

09:52What's going on with your homie?

09:54He's on camera.

09:55Tripping.

09:57He's on 4K.

09:58He's on 4K.

09:59Yo, the new iPhone got that good quality.

10:03What are you saying?

10:05What?

10:06Get away from us.

10:14Walk away.

10:15We're home!

10:16Yeah, what the hell?

10:18Who is this?

10:20Yes, yes, yes.

10:23For the culture.

10:26For the culture.

10:27Who is that?

10:29For the culture.

10:30Who is that?

10:32Who the hell is this?

10:35Go.

10:36It doesn't matter.

10:36He said he was looking for a little girl.

10:40He said he was looking for a little girl.

10:43You're looking for a little girl?

10:44Yeah.

10:45That's exactly what he said.

10:46We're looking for a little girl.

10:48I didn't have that part on camera.

10:52What the hell is this guy's problem, bro?

10:55We're trying to have fun.

10:57Is he going to claim you?

10:59He's going to claim you.

11:01We're not on this whole thing.

11:03Let him on camera.

11:04Let him on camera.

11:06He on camera.

11:07Oh, God.

11:08Oh, God.

11:09He on camera.

11:10Oh, God.

11:11He on camera.

11:12Oh, God.

11:13Oh, God.

11:13He on camera.

11:28He ain't a woman?

11:30He ain't a woman!

11:32He ain't a woman?

11:34You ain't a woman!

11:39What the f***? You're dying, bro.

11:42Wait, what? What?

11:44Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.

11:50Are we serious? Is this real?

11:53Oh my God.

11:55Who is that?

11:57Miyu had fatally stabbed Schumann and wounded four other victims,

12:00with serious injuries to their upper torsos and abdomens.

12:04A 24-year-old woman from Burnsville, a 22-year-old man from Elk River,

12:09and two young men from Luck, Wisconsin were transported to the hospital.

12:14Their conditions ranged from critical to serious, with some requiring emergency surgeries.

12:18A massive manhunt then ensued as officers from multiple jurisdictions converged on the area.

12:24Body cam footage obtained by Midwest Crime shows officers arresting Miyu about 90 minutes after the stabbing.

12:30Investigators said he discarded the knife and changed clothes before his arrest.

12:36Our current witness says that the male appears to be wearing a camel-colored shirt.

12:40Put your hand in the back.

12:41Okay.

12:41Yes.

12:43Just talking. I'm sorry.

12:44I'm sorry, yeah.

12:45No, I'm just being detained at this point, okay?

12:47Yes.

12:49What are we checking now?

12:51I'm checking.

12:5436 dispatch. Believe we have the suspect detained.

12:56Believe we have him detained at this time.

12:58No.

12:58No weapons were up in the cap?

13:00We don't even have my shoes on.

13:02Okay.

13:16I got a photo on my phone. I'll be there in a second.

13:18Yeah.

13:21Chain matches.

13:23Shorts.

13:26What's your name?

13:27Nick.

13:28Nick what?

13:29Nick Mew.

13:30Okay.

13:30What did he do?

13:34This way.

13:35Bring on my quad.

13:37He's not double locked at this point.

13:39Alright, we'll worry about it over here.

13:41He's got a silver chain on him.

13:45Silver blockchain.

13:50Same shorts.

13:52Let me double lock this quick.

13:54Let me just run over.

13:57Never.

13:59Like I said, sir, you're just detained at this point, okay?

14:01I'll explain anything in a second here.

14:03He's got some pretty good markings on his hand, too.

14:05Alright.

14:06Um, to make your job easier, we just located our suspect.

14:10Hi.

14:11Can you step out for a second?

14:13We just want to check you out.

14:15Are you injured at all?

14:16No, other than my butt.

14:17Very injured and scratched.

14:18Your butt's injured?

14:19Well, from sliding all over the stones.

14:22Oh, the rocks?

14:23Yeah.

14:23Alright.

14:23And my hand, I think.

14:25Okay.

14:25Take a look at your hair.

14:26Yeah.

14:28He said, get out of there because we don't know what's going on.

14:30And he's run this way.

14:31And he said, they're taking my knife.

14:34That's it.

14:35They're punching him.

14:36He told me, they're taking my knife.

14:37So, people were punching him.

14:40Where were they punching him on his body?

14:43He punching, I don't know, in the face or here, they're punching down.

14:47And when he get out, that's when I tell him, get out there because I don't know.

14:53And when he coming around to us, they're taking my knife.

14:58And later, we find out what's going on.

15:01Still doing all right?

15:02Yeah.

15:03Okay.

15:04What's going on?

15:05Temperature?

15:05Temperature's okay in here?

15:06Yeah.

15:07Okay.

15:07Somebody, I hear somebody got stabbed.

15:10And I feel the description.

15:11Yes, you do.

15:12All right.

15:13Yep.

15:13So, we're working through that now.

15:15Did you see that fight on the river?

15:16I heard about it.

15:17You heard about it?

15:18Yeah.

15:18And I've seen people gather around it.

15:20Okay.

15:21All right.

15:22And I went over to talk to see if somebody saw anything.

15:25But that's about it.

15:26Okay.

15:27Our whole group was pretty interested in finding out what happened.

15:31Okay.

15:32And that's your whole group over there?

15:34Yeah.

15:35Yeah.

15:35Okay.

15:36All right.

15:37So, I don't know.

15:39Okay.

15:39Well.

15:40Did you see anybody injured?

15:41No.

15:42You didn't see anybody injured?

15:44Did you see anybody fighting?

15:45I heard people screaming at each other, yes.

15:48Okay.

15:48Yeah.

15:49Screaming in anger or screaming in pain?

15:51Do you know?

15:54Everybody's drunk.

15:55So, I don't know.

15:55I can't tell the difference.

15:56But I would say, I don't know, just screaming.

16:02Okay.

16:03You know, calling each other names.

16:06And it's, I've seen that all day.

16:09Thank you guys for all your help.

16:10Thank you for having me.

16:10And we've all been drinking a lot.

16:12I'm sure they're drunk.

16:13I'm sure they're doing, I don't know.

16:18Okay.

16:19Kids being kids.

16:21Kids being kids.

16:22Where are you, where's your group from?

16:26Where did you drive from today?

16:28I drove from Pryor Lake.

16:32From Pryor Lake.

16:33Okay.

16:33Actually, I didn't even drive.

16:35We can't get around.

16:37Your wife and you?

16:38Yeah.

16:39And you met the group here?

16:40Yeah, but we know each other.

16:42Okay.

16:43All right.

16:43As long as the temperature's good, I'll check back with you in a minute, okay?

16:47The St. Croix District Attorney described the attack as graphic and horrific,

16:51arguing that Mew's behavior after the stabbing,

16:54discarding the weapon, pretending not to know what happened,

16:57showed his intent to avoid responsibility.

17:00So right now you're being placed under arrest, okay?

17:04You're being placed under arrest for homicide and attempted homicide.

17:08That's all we're going to discuss with you right now.

17:11More than likely an investigator will come talk to you at the jail.

17:14All right?

17:15Okay.

17:17All right, come over to this door here.

17:19Okay.

17:21At trial, Mew's attorneys argued that he acted in self-defense after being attacked.

17:26Prosecutors, however, presented the video footage to show that Mew escalated the conflict

17:30and could have walked away.

17:32Part of what makes this so tragic and horrific is how easily Nikolai Mew could have avoided

17:37all of this.

17:38As I said, after he was insulted, he could have just let the boys float away.

17:43Instead, he charged up onto them.

17:46When the boys were yelling at him to leave, he doesn't.

17:49When another group comes to intervene to help to yell at him, tell him to leave, he doesn't.

17:54Instead, while multiple people are telling him, pleading with him, yelling at him to leave,

17:59he's smirking and he takes out his pocket knife.

18:01During the sentencing hearing, Isaac Schumann's mother gave an emotional statement.

18:05She urged the court to impose the maximum sentence.

18:08When was the last time you saw Isaac Wyatt?

18:15The morning of July 30th, before he left, he originally told me in the morning that he

18:19was going to go golfing.

18:21He came out and said, some of the guys are going tubing on the river.

18:26And I said, okay.

18:29And the way I said, okay, wasn't like, I was super excited about it.

18:36And he's like, why?

18:37And I said, well, I was going to ask you to pick Dad up from the airport until I got

18:40a

18:40flight home.

18:42And he said, I can pick Dad up.

18:45And I said, no, just go have fun with your friends on the river.

18:50Mew also spoke at the hearing, apologizing to Schumann's parents.

18:54I would like to start by letting you know how deeply sorrowed I have been.

18:59I am and I will always be for the real fact that Isaac is not with you anymore.

19:05And that I was directly involved in his very tragic and unimaginable death at such an early

19:13age.

19:14I never meant for this tragedy to occur.

19:18My soul is broken.

19:20My heart is very heavy.

19:22I pray to God for forgiveness, compassion, and love for everyone affected directly and

19:30indirectly by the outcome of this tragic event.

19:33Mew's defense team argued that he felt trapped during the confrontation and acted to protect

19:38himself.

19:38But the judge ultimately rejected those arguments.

19:41Although Mr. Mew may not pose an imminent risk to the public, the public does have a strong

19:47interest in holding people accountable who breach the social compact and commit crimes.

19:53For count one, I will impose a term of initial confinement of 20 years, followed by six years of extended

20:02supervision.

20:03Prosecutors had requested a 70-year sentence, but the court ultimately handed down a 20-year

20:09term.

20:10Mew faced up to 100 years in prison on multiple charges, including reckless homicide and reckless

20:16endangerment.

20:17But the judge sentenced him to 20 years for killing Schumann.

20:21With an additional six years of supervised release, the five-year terms for each of the

20:25injured victims will run concurrently with the 20-year sentence.

20:29Mew, now 54, will be in his 70s by the time he's eligible for release.

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