[Odd that all the hunters who get killed are always “tremendous” “happy” people, when so many you meet wouldn’t fit that description.]
911 call made after Clay County hunters shot released
Hunter killed in Clay County identified [while the turkey is still anonymous.]
Officials with Kentucky State Police confirm to WKYT that Brian Griffin, [Wait, isn’t that the dog from Family Guy?] 28, died from his injuries. Griffin and the other injured hunter were airlifted from the scene to UK Hospital.
The shooting happened in a rural area between Manchester and Fogertown in rural Clay County. Officials have been searching the area where it happened for most of the day with a K-9 unit while friends helped look for Griffin’s keys at the scene.
Police tell us three men were turkey hunting along Highway 638. That’s when their hunting trip was cut short while walking along a ridge line. They were shot by an unknown person, according to Clay County Sheriff Kevin Johnson. [Maybe it was Miss Kentucky.]
The third man in that group called for help, Johnson said.
“Two of the gentlemen were hit. The third individual was not hit, and he was able to call 911,” said Trooper Lloyd Cochran with Kentucky State Police.
Throughout the day, we’ve learned a bit about the man who was killed, Brian Griffin, from the Clay County High School basketball coach, who once played ball with Griffin.
“Brian’s a great friend of mine,” said Coach Robert Marcum. “He played at Clay County a few years back. And as a basketball coach at Clay County, I always welcome people into the gym that actually wore the Tiger jersey.”
Coach Robert Marcum also tells us he worked alongside Griffin at a prison for a few years as well.
“Just a tremendous person,” Marcum says. “Never heard of anybody saying anything negative about him [except that he hunted]. You know, he’s just so calm natured and just a happy person.”
As for the second victim, a family friend says that man is Jason Roberts of Clay County who was flown to UK Hospital. We have no word on his condition.
As of 11 p.m. on Thursday, state police and Sheriff Johnson were still looking for the shooter responsible for this. The sheriff also wants to clear up a rumor, saying this case is not connected to drug activity in the area. He’s calling this a hunting accident.
Exposing the Big Game 
This doesn’t surprise me a bit. I go through absolute hell for 26 straight days because of turkey killers. They harass and threaten us. Our lives and our pets’ lives are in constant danger. The law UNenforcement officers are simply the hunters’ private security force and do nothing but make excuses and justifications for them and their constant regulation violations, while twisting things to turn the victims (the human victims, that is) into criminals and the criminals into victims. I spend all day every day for 26 straight days outside near our road to keep an eye on things and to know exactly who trespasses through. When one of their dropped cigarettes starts the conflagration in this tinder-dry pine forest that will burn down the entire neighborhood, I will have photographic proof of who was down here. The nightmares and PTSD from this Month From Hell take months more to subside. I can totally understand somebody finally going off the rails and resorting to the ONLY thing that will make these fuckers STOP.
Wow, how sad. Not.
If they chose a true sport they would be “happy” and animals were alive and happy too. May he rot in hell and his friend suffer for the rest of his miserable life
🙂
got hunting license?? No problema!!
“Just a tremendous person,” Marcum says. “Never heard of anybody saying anything negative about him [except that he hunted]. You know, he’s just so calm natured and just a happy person.”
So, then, we’re all becoming aware of the fact that the general public DOES have a problem with this activity.
It’s also evident that there ARE drug problems in the area, but the sheriff, as private security (that point was not lost on me, either, bythewindsailor), wants to make a “point” of this instead admitting the fact that the drug dealers might be taking pot-shots at the animal killers for THEIR own reasons. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility.
Why is it that whenever there’s a hunting “accident” and one of these types received a karmic payback, everyone is so quick to describe him as a “tremendous person” because that gives me a mental image of being a huge, overweight slob, not a person of great moral and ethical stature or anything else.
To clarify, I added the aside: [“except that he hunts.”]
Karma works both ways.
So they had ” fun ” by murdering animals.
Then they were murdered by someone else who was having ” fun “.
I guess murder turned out to not be “fun”.
IDIOTS.
Hilarious .
lost of 1 hunter = 365 lives will live free in a year.