May 28, 2020 at 1:03 p.m.
Wausau man pleads guilty to 2017 Tomahawk murder
Wausau man pleads guilty to 2017 Tomahawk murder
According to online court records, Eric L. Moen entered a guilty plea to the first-degree intentional homicide he was charged with on Nov. 20, 2017.
He is accused of killing Charles Ramp in the driveway of his Tomahawk home on Nov. 16, 2017, according to court records.
The case has been on hold since Feb. 21, 2018 when Moen entered a plea of not guilty by reason of disease or defect at his arraignment before Judge Robert Russell. He remains in the Lincoln County Jail on a $1 million cash bond.
According to the criminal compliant filed in the case, Moen told Tomahawk Police Chief Al Elvins he drove to Tomahawk late in the afternoon on the day of the shooting, stopping at the truck stop outside of Merrill on U.S. Highway 51 to purchase gasoline. While there, he told Elvins "he readied a 20-gauge shotgun by loading five shells into it, working the action to chamber a round," according to the complaint.
After arriving in Tomahawk at around 5 p.m., he went to Ramp's home on West Mohawk Drive and parked at the end of his driveway. Ramp was not home, but two people in the house invited him in to wait for his arrival. When Ramp arrived 15 minutes later, Moen told him his vehicle was making a funny noise, and said he was going to open the hood and get a light so Ramp could check the motor, the complaint states.
He then went outside, opened the hood and opened the driver's door. Ramp came out a few minutes later.
"Moen got the readied shotgun out of the back of his vehicle, walked back around the driver's side carrying the shotgun down hear his waist, then put the shotgun up in a ready position as he walked around the driver's door," the complaint alleges Moen told Elvins.
The complaint said that Moen shot Ramp once, and he fell to the ground.
Moen then allegedly shot Ramp four more times as he lay on the ground. Ramp was transported to Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Tomahawk where he died as a result of his wounds.
Elvins said the suspect immediately fled the area, heading west.
Deputies with the Chippewa County Sheriff's Department later apprehended him without incident at a Walmart store in Lake Hallie.
Upon being brought back to Tomahawk, the complaint states Moen led police to where he disposed of the shotgun.
No motive for the shooting was ever announced.
Judge Russell ordered a pre-sentence investigation and set sentencing for Sept. 2. Moen faces up to life in prison on the class A felony.
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