Nicolae Miu was scheduled to appear via video on Monday afternoon in St. Croix County Circuit Court in Hudson. The teenager’s family identified him as Isaac Schuman, an incoming senior at Stillwater High School. The victims and Miu were walking down the river around 3:45 p.m., Sheriff Scott Knudson said. The attack happened just upstream from Hwy. 35/64 Bridge in Somerset Township, near the Minnesota border and northeast of Stillwater. The Apple River has long been a popular summer recreation destination for residents of the Twin Cities. “Deputies, as well as members of the public, began providing medical treatment to the victims,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. The surviving victims were all treated in stable condition with serious to critical injuries to their torso or chest, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Sunday. They include two men from Luck, Wis., one 20 and the other 22. a 24-year-old woman from Burnsville and a 22-year-old man from Elk River. Officials have not yet released their identities. Knudson said Monday afternoon that the two Luck victims have since been released from the hospital. The Burnsville woman is Ryhley Mattison, who explained on a GoFundMe page on her behalf that “some friends and I were tubing when we came [across] a group that was asking for our help. My friends and I went to see what was going on, and there was an old man there who was inappropriate and was asked to leave but he didn’t. The old man ended up having a knife and stabbed a couple of my friends and me together.” The sheriff said: “Thank God a witness had taken a picture of him [the suspect]. Another witness spotted him at the exit of the piping site, where he was taken into custody. We still don’t know who connected with whom, who knew each other, or what caused it. It’s a tragic day.” In response to the attack, the pipeline service provider closed for the day on Sunday, but resumed operations on Monday. Saturday was “a rough and tumble day on the river,” read a Sunday Facebook post from River’s Edge Campground. “Tens of thousands of visitors annually… enjoy floating down the river with family and friends. Yesterday, an act of violence shattered that tranquility.” …
