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Lee Koenig

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photo courtesy NDCS
Full Name:  Lee O. Koenig
DOB:  June 18, 1957
Charge:  Manslaughter
County:  Saunders
City:  Yutan
Current Status:  Omaha Correctional Center
Date of Crime:  November 17, 2007
Victim:  Russell Christiansen

PictureRussell Christiansen, courtesy WOWT News
Lee Koenig shot and killed 47-year old Russell Christiansen near Yutan.  Was it a tragic accident of a case of manslaughter or murder?  Investigators were getting a birds-eye view of the property using the State Patrol helicopter to fly over the scene of the shooting.  Lee's brother insists it was an accident and the investigation is far from over.  

This part of Saunders County is known as "the bottoms".  The Platte River is less than a half mile to the east.  It's covered with marsh and sporadic trees, the perfect place for Russ Christiansen to take his 15-year old son to hunt.  While they were in this area just northwest of the house, Russell and his son may have been retrieving the deer the boy took when Russell was hit by Lee's shot.  Lee was evidently trying to shoot a coyote, thought he was shooting a coyote, and accidentally hit Russ and just misidentified what he was shooting at.

Source:  Gary Smollen, WOWT News


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