[Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I enjoy reading or reporting on hunting accidents. I wish they’d all put down their weapons and pick up a camera or binoculars or hiking boots, and take up a less destructive pastime.]
Brighton teenager fatally wounded in hunting accident
Photo Copyright Jim Robertson
10/20/2013
A 14-year-old Brighton boy was fatally wounded by a gunshot to the chest Saturday afternoon while on a hunting trip with his family according to Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office.
Early indicators suggest the incident was accidental, although additional inquiry is being carried out according to investigators.
The boy, Dante Muro, was hunting in the San Isabel National Forest with his father, mother and grandfather at the time of the incident.
The sheriff’s communication center was contacted at about 5 p.m. by the boy’s father and grandfather.
The boy had gone off a short distance on his own and family members said they heard a single gunshot and found the boy lying face up motionless nearby, his rifle across his chest.
Medics from Chaffee County Emergency Medical Services determined that the boy was deceased.
The victim’s name is being withheld until all relatives have been notified by the coroner.
The incident occurred four miles west of County Road 221 near Forest Service Road 222 on national forest land.
The body was taken to the county morgue in Salida. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
Although preliminary investigation indicates that the victim’s wound was self-inflicted accidentally, the official determination of the cause and manner of death will be released by the coroner after the investigation is completed, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
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……….Meanwhile, back in Georgia……….
One dead in Jones hunting accident
By WAYNE CRENSHAW — wcrenshaw@macon.com
One person died in a hunting accident in Jones County on Saturday.
Details of the incident are sketchy. Jones County Sheriff’s Sgt. Bobby Gay said it happened at about 12:30 p.m. on Union Hill Church Road near the Putnam County line.
“We don’t know exactly what happened,” Gay said. “They are still investigating.”
No names are being released at this time, he said, and no other information was available. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the sheriff’s department are investigating.
Saturday was the first day of deer season for firearms.
Exposing the Big Game 
Two fewer sub-humans in the world. Excellent.
Indeed Pete. These “sub-humans” do bring out these emotions.
Well, they should not have been hunting in the first place. I can’t say that I have any sympathy.
For heaven’s sake, Jim, don’t apologize! Can there be anything more satisfying than hearing about the embezzler who got embezzled, or the bully who got bullied, or the assassin who got assassinated. These stories make my day!
Sure, they’re satisfying stories, except when the victim is a 14 year old who died of a mysterious self-inflicted gunshot wound. Who knows, maybe he was so distraught about the ordeal of having to be out there to impress his die-hard animal-killing daddy that he offed himself. Too bad he didn’t tell his story first. I’d still like to see some of these people grow out of it and lay down their weapons for good.
Well, yes, it’s certainly possible that the boy could have been a secret member of CASH, the child of a loving PETA couple, abducted at birth, abused, forced to take-up arms against the wild animals he loved, and intentionally murdered when he refused to kill a squirrel and made to look like a suicide. Possible. But I’m not betting money on it and at this point I’m rationing my not-inexhaustible sympathies and reserving them for the countless non-human victims of the hunting season.
Yes, that’s exactly the scenario I was envisioning–thanks for spelling it out. (Satire intended–here and at most times, by the way).
Seriously, while I’m certainly not suggesting anyone share their eventually exhaustible sympathy with someone who kills animals, I think it’s only fair that we let them live until adulthood, just in case they have a growth spurt that includes growing a conscience. (What is the legal age these days, 16? 18? They should at least be old enough to be tried as an adult before we cheer their self-imposed execution.)
Perhaps some people need to hunt to augment their meat supplies. I don’t hunt, but I can certainly understand the need for poor people to get more meat. I do not condone hunting as a “sport” but to eat, I accept it.
Ho hum, I wish you had a tenth as much compassion for the animals pursued and killed for someone’s meat as you have for the people out there who would be better off (physically and psychologically) getting their protein form plant-based sources.
Absolutely I am cheered. Jim you are so nice. But I am not so nice. And I love not being so nice! Humbug on niceness! Let’s blow nice off this beautiful blue planet once and for all!
Bring on the body count.
Now I feel guilty for my outburst. I do have little control of myself on animal blog comment boards. Please forgive me. But in truth I want hunters to see the light and walk away or be stacked like cordwood.
Now I am going for a walk in Death Valley. The sun is shining and the ravens are flying and Death Valley always heals my emotion which is so easily perturbed. A coyote even came to my yard this morning. A good omen. He stood a long time sizing me up. He probably thought I was one strange looking human. In my husbands’s bathrobe and a cup of coffee and wearing a beanie.
I’m sure you were a sight.