TOMAHAWK, WI (WSAU-WAOW) 32-year-old Eric Moen of Wausau has been identified as the suspect in a fatal shooting last night in Tomahawk. Police say he fled to scene and was captured early Friday morning at the Walmart in Lake Hallie.
He told police after he was arrested that he didn’t know why he killed his friend, 52-year-old Charles Ramp inside a camper in Tomahawk last night around 6pm.
“There’s no way he can explain it, that’s what he said. ‘I don’t know why I did it,’” police said Eric Moen told them after he was arrested in Chippewa County early Friday morning.
Moen left the scene immediately after the shooting and started heading west, police said at a news conference on Friday.. They wouldn’t say where he was headed, only that he was arrested in Lake Hallie in a parking lot.
Alcohol and drugs do not appear to be a factor in the shooting.
“I’m not going to say he thought about it for days, but he thought about it for a couple hours, prior to coming up here,” Chief Al Elvins said.
Moen lured Ramp outside and onto the driveway by telling Ramp he was having car trouble, according to prosecutors in court Friday. They said Moen left the house after shooting multiple times. Ramp’s wife and daughter were inside the home and one was injured from flying debris. They’ve been treated and released.
Officials said Moen ditched the gun on his way out of Lincoln County.
Moen is being held on $1-million bond.
