WABASHA, Minn — A Chatfield man pleaded guilty to murder for the 2025 shooting death of a Wabasha woman. The victim, Melissa Hunt, age36, was shot in the face at a boat landing near Kellogg. She managed to drive to nearby house and named her assailant as “Ham.” She died soon afterward six miles es away at the Wabasha hospital. Police later found Craig Alan Hameister, 45, hiding up a tree. At a hearing Tuesday, Hameister told the judge: “I shot Melissa Hunt in the face.” Hameister appeared in a video hookup from his Wabasha County jail cell. Judge Dwight Luhmann, on loan to Wabasha County from Winona, accepted the plea and scheduled a pre-scntencing hearing for April.
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