Wisconsin ? A jury was selected Thursday for the trial of a man accused of killing six deer hunters in the northern Wisconsin woods.

Jurors were expected to receive further instructions later Thursday before being bused to Hayward, about 300 miles northwest of Madison, to hear testimony in the trial of Chai Soua Vang.

Opening statements and testimony are expected to begin Saturday, and the trial is scheduled to last up to two weeks.

Vang, 36, a Hmong immigrant from St. Paul, Minn., is charged with six counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in the Nov. 21 shootings. If convicted, he faces mandatory life in prison.

Eyewitnesses and friends of the dead hunters have portrayed the killings as cold-blooded murders by an angry man on a shooting rampage.

Vang told investigators he was shot at first and acted in self-defense after the hunters tormented him with profanity and racial insults.