A man stabbed during a tubing excursion on Wisconsin’s Apple River, who survived with the most serious injuries, showed jurors a long scar from below his belt line to above his ribs Wednesday.

Another person injured, who also was called to testify, cried as an attorney displayed a photo in court of her lying injured near the river.

During the third day of the trial of Nicolae Miu, who is accused of murder in the stabbing of 17-year-old Isaac Schuman, jurors heard from people who’d been injured and other witnesses from various tubing groups, including Miu’s own group and his now-ex wife.

Just over two hours after setting off on the western Wisconsin river on July 30, 2022, Schuman was fatally stabbed during a chaotic confrontation that he and others had with Miu, a then 52-year-old mechanical engineer who is also charged with stabbing and injuring four others some 100 to 200 yards upstream from the Highway 35/64 bridge in Somerset.

Miu, of Prior Lake, claimed he acted in self-defense after being attacked by a large group of floaters who accused him of being a “pedophile” while he was looking for his friend’s lost cellphone and carrying a snorkel and goggles. Miu’s attorney, Aaron Nelson, told jurors on Monday that he was “outnumbered” and “feared for his life.”

The trial will continue Thursday, with prosecutors continuing to call people to the stand to testify. When they are done, it will be defense attorneys’ turn to the do same.

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