Lauren D. Hesebeck helped to rescue Terry S. Willers and Dennis R. Drew from assault, Birchwood, Wisconsin, November 21, 2004. Willers, 47, was deer hunting on private property with several others, including Drew, 55, and Hesebeck, 48, automobile sales manager. They and other members of the party confronted a trespasser on the property and directed him to leave. The trespasser, armed with a rifle, started to walk away but then opened fire on the hunters, wounding Willers, Drew, and Hesebeck and killing three others. Although a vehicle nearby was available to him, Hesebeck remained at the scene to tend Willers and Drew. Willers’s son and another man were alerted to the shooting, and they responded by all-terrain vehicle. They evacuated Willers from the scene, Hesebeck again electing to remain, with Drew. Hearing Willers’s voice on a radio transmission, his daughter and another hunter, also members of the party, set out to the scene on an all-terrain vehicle. En route, they too were shot and mortally wounded by the assailant. The assailant reappeared at a point near Hesebeck and saw that he was alive. He fired again at Hesebeck, then fled. Two other members of the hunting party, Drew’s brother and another man, arrived shortly in a pickup truck and took Hesebeck and Drew to safety. Willers required hospital treatment for his wound, and he recovered. Drew, also hospitalized, died the next day of his injury. Hesebeck was hospitalized for treatment, including surgery, of a shoulder wound, and he recovered
78757 – 9048
78757-9048