28-year-old man sentenced to 40 years in prison in fatal shooting and dismemberment case

WAUSAU (AP) — A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison in the fatal shooting and dismemberment of a Minnesota man.

Twenty-eight-year-old Kou Thao pleaded no contest in September to second-degree intentional homicide in the April 2013 death of 58-year-old Tong Pao Hang, of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Thao was sentenced Wednesday in Marathon County Circuit Court. The Wausau Daily Herald Media reports (http://wdhne.ws/1BI8H6S ) his sentence includes 20 years of extended supervision after his release.

Thao was accused of shooting and dismembering Hang, and taking Hang's severed head to Milwaukee in the trunk of his car in the spring of 2013. Other body parts were found in the basement of a Milwaukee home.

Last year a Marathon County judge ruled Thao was mentally capable of assisting with his own defense.