Nicolae Miu learns his fate after being convicted of Apple River stabbings - as victim's mother calls him a 'monster'

Nicolae Miu, nan man who fatally stabbed a teenager in July 2022 connected nan Apple River successful Wisconsin, has been sentenced to 20 years successful prison. 

Miu, 54, was recovered guilty on April 11 of nan first-degree reckless homicide of Isaac Schuman, 17. 

The convicted slayer was besides recovered blameworthy of lesser charges of stabbing and injuring 4 teens - 3 boys and a girl.

Miu - who was sentenced a time aft nan two-year day of nan tragic incident -  bowed his caput and teared up successful nan courtroom. 

'He stole Isaac's life, and he stole my life,' said Isaac's mother, Alina Hernandez. 'Justice to maine is getting my kid back…I'm thankful nan assemblage sewage it correct and nan monster will dice successful prison. He has nary soul…he's evil.'

'He has nary remorse. He plays nan victim. It makes maine nauseous. Judge, I inquire you to condemnation him to nan fullest,' she added.

Prior to his sentencing, Miu turned to Isaac's parents and said: 'My psyche is broken; my bosom is very heavy. I ne'er meant for this calamity to occur.

'I believe to God for forgiveness, compassion and emotion for everyone affected straight and indirectly by nan result of this tragic event,' he added.  

Miu's rampage came aft he was surrounded by a ample group of raucous teens while tubing down nan stream and respective of them pushed him astir while accusing him of 'looking astatine a girl.' 

Video of nan relationship showed nan teenagers heckling Miu earlier he pulled retired a Swiss Army weapon and started jabbing them.

When Isaac was attacked by Miu, Owen Peloquin, his friend, said he didn't spot him get stabbed but rushed complete to nan teen and brought him to statement pinch his different friend Alex aft they realized. 

'I tried my hardest to extremity nan bleeding,' Peloquin said arsenic he became visibly affectional connected nan guidelines during his testimony. 

Isaac was taken successful an ambulance to nan Lakeview Hospital successful Stillwater wherever he was pronounced dead. 

Ryhley Mattinson, A.J Martin, Dante Carlson and Tony Carlson were nan different 4 teenagers stabbed that day. 

Mattinson had to person emergency room and erstwhile she arrived her humor intoxicant level was astatine 0.09. 

Carlson suffered penetrating trauma from his stab wounds and had to person a hernia repaired. His humor intoxicant level was besides 0.09.   

Peloquin said that Miu 'just weirdly for illustration sprinted astatine us, conscionable made america each ace uncomfortable.' 

The Romanian-American technologist had claimed he acted successful self-defense.

On nan time of his conviction, jurors were sent retired of nan courtroom to deliberate Miu's destiny arsenic prosecutors and defense attorneys battled complete whether it was self-defense.

'Nicolae Miu is simply a murderer who did not enactment successful aforesaid defense,' DA Karl Anderson told jurors successful his closing arguments - and said video of Isaac's July 2022 sidesplitting proved his point.

'One of nan things nan defense said astatine nan opening of proceedings and successful their opening was they're gladsome there's a video,' he said. 'So are we.' 

Anderson besides rubbished claims Miu was frightened erstwhile he stabbed Shuman - and said his behaviour was nan consequence of a bad temper.

'Nicolae was not successful fear, he snapped.' Anderson said.

Anderson added that Miu could person brandished nan weapon arsenic a threat and frightened Shuman and his friends disconnected without resorting to horrific violence. 

Corey Chirafisi, Miu's lawyer, insisted his customer had been rounded connected and threatened by a fearless mob and that nan stabbings were justified.

He said: 'They sewage successful his face, they screamed astatine him, they called him names, they swore astatine him.

'They put their hands connected him and nan group of six, they became brave.

'The group of six became brave to nan constituent that they circled him and commencement taunting him.

'They do this to a man who has done nothing, perfectly thing to them.

'Then, erstwhile that man, Mr. Miu, tries to create immoderate abstraction betwixt him and Madison Coen, they pounce.

'They punch him. They push him. They slap him. They deed him again.

'They choke him. From, each directions. And Nic Miu acts successful self-defense.'

Chirafisi highlighted really unafraid nan boys seemed during nan attack, their lies astir him being a pedophile and that 1 was heard saying to Miu 'You sewage 10 seconds.'

'In your mundane experiences successful life, erstwhile personification tells you that you person 10 seconds, what usually comes aft that?' Chirafisi continued. 'Nothing bully is coming aft that. It's reasonable successful our experiences arsenic adults to return that arsenic a threat.' 

As he was shown pictures and videos from that time during his trial, Miu said he was touched by Madison Coen and Mattison earlier nan weapon was drawn. 

'They were very close, they were really adjacent to me. I could consciousness and perceive them,' Miu said.

Miu described really he reached for his pouch weapon arsenic his fearfulness sewage 'really high' conscionable earlier Madison placed her manus connected his precocious arm.

In recorded interviews, Miu said: 'All of a sudden, they were for illustration wolves astir maine and they were attacking maine from each directions and I truly, truly, feared for my life.

'They came connected to me. They deed me, they sewage connected apical of me, and I don't retrieve thing aft that.'

During his testimony, he said that he didn't cognize really galore group were attacking him but he knew that location were 'more than he could handle' and that he has had 'nightmares' since.

A witness, Larrion Davis, later told investigators that he saw nan attacker 'taking pictures of girls' successful nan area.

However, arsenic he took nan stand, Davis appeared confused complete this claim, and admitted he wasn't judge what he saw because 'there was a batch going on.'

Miu's then-wife Sondra told detectives that nan convulsive altercation began aft Miu, whose group was further up nan river, went backmost to find a 'phone that was lost' while wearing snorkeling gear.

While he was looking, Sondra said a 'group of guys sewage disconnected their tubes and started hitting' him.

The proceedings lasted 8 days, arsenic much than 3 twelve witnesses took nan stand. 

Miu pleaded not blameworthy to nan charges successful September 2022.

He was originally calved successful Romania and immigrated to nan US erstwhile he was a teenager.

Sondra and Miu sewage divided aft nan incident and he was 'living a peaceful, quiet life successful Minnesota' and 'had ne'er been successful problem before.'