2022 Apple River stabbing

In 2022, an incident occurred along the Apple River in the Town of Somerset, in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, in which five people were stabbed. One of the five people injured died as a result of the stabbing. The Apple River is a 77.5-mile tributary of the St. Croix River in northwestern Wisconsin that is popular for canoeing, tubing, and other recreation, drawing an estimated 500,000 visitors a year; the stabbing took place along a stretch of the river within the Town of Somerset.

Available source material for this dossier is limited to a brief geographic and historical overview of the Apple River itself, which notes the 2022 stabbing incident as a single sentence within a broader article about the river's course, history, and recreational use. This source does not provide the names of any victims, any charged or convicted person, the specific date of the incident, or details of any subsequent legal proceedings.

A corroborating reference to contemporaneous news coverage from CBS News is associated with this case, specifically an article referencing a sentencing related to the Apple River incident, indicating that legal proceedings occurred following the stabbing. However, per sourcing constraints for this dossier, factual claims are drawn only from the primary source text describing the river and the incident, and the corroborating CBS News reference is cited only as an independent source rather than a substantive source of facts. Similarly, a reference to viewer.nationalmap.gov, a U.S. Geological Survey mapping tool, is included as a corroborating citation without contributing additional narrative facts to this summary.

Because the available detailed source text is limited to a single sentence noting the occurrence of the stabbing, this dossier cannot confirm the identities of those involved, the precise date of the incident, the nature of any charges, or the outcome of any court proceedings. Readers seeking further detail should consult the CBS News coverage and other contemporaneous reporting for additional confirmed facts.