Logger's brush with death not his first, he says
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Logger's brush with death not his first, he says
The April 19 shoot-out in the woods of northern Wisconsin is not the first time that John &#8220Homer” Van Meter has bumped against death, he says. Among them were two auto accidents and the time a tree fell on him. He's no stranger to bullets coming his way either. &#8220It's not the first time I've been shot,” the 52-year-old logger told The Daily News in an interview at his home Thursday. While he provided details about an auto accident that almost claimed his life at age 19, he declined to talk about the other shooting incident. Investigators from the Lincoln and Oneida county sheriff's departments are working together to retrieve clues and develop leads about the events of April 19, the day Van Meter claims two men approached him as he was working in the woods outside Tomahawk and began
