MADISON, Wis. -- Chai Vang has been found guilty by a jury, but Wisconsin residents are still debating the verdict.

From the woods to the University of Wisconsin campus people are still deciding how race played a role in the trial, and how to move beyond the divide. Vang, 36, of St. Paul, Minn., was convicted Friday by an all-white jury of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted homicide.

The killings occurred in November after the hunters confronted Vang and accused him of trespassing. The jury rejected his claims he shot in self-defense after one hunter used racial slurs and another fired at him.

Saturday was the first day of the deer bow hunting season, and hunters stocking up at the store had a new perspective on what could happen in the woods.

"It's a very scary thought that stuff like that happens," said Wayne Rider of Prarie du Sac.

As one father introduced his son to the sport for the first time, he said there are lessons besides steady aim and patience for him to teach.

"I think the key is having respect for what you're doing as hunter -- respect for the firearms that you're using, and the permission of the landowners of where you're hunting," said Chris Byrne of Oregon.

On campus, Hmong students are taking different lessons from the Vang trial.

"If someone would say, 'Yes, this was a racially motivated incident, and perhaps we should all learn something from this … '" said James Chang, a member of the UW's Hmong American Student Association.

While Chang doesn't claim, as members of Vang's family have, that juror prejudice led to a guilty verdict, he does believe prejudice started the violence.

"This incident has really drawn lines through Wisconsin, it's really pitted the majority of Wisconsin residents against the Hmong people," Chang said. "It has definitely separated these two communities."

Juror: Vang's Testimony Had Different Stories

One Madison juror told WISC-TV he was stressed the entire time he was listening to the trial. Bill Bremer said the map that was presented into evidence showed exactly where people were shot and where they died, and he and all the jurors kept an open mind until the very end.

However, Bremer said he believes the evidence presented by the map revealed the truth.

"Mr. Vang's testimony had several different stories and the story told in court was not the first story told to the investigator from Sawyer County," Bremer said. "So as a result, that put that credibility of everything he said (in question). I had to weigh that in my own mind -- what he was saying? Did I think that was truthful or not?"

Bremer said he didn't believe Vang's claim of self defense when he found out some hunters were shot in the back, stomach or while lying down. He also couldn't believe that Vang said three people he shot "deserved to die."