PHOTO BY JILL GOSCHE Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Seneca County Sheriff’s Office officials walk toward the woods where the accident occurred Saturday.

A Tiffin man was transported by Life Flight to Mercy Health – St. Vincent Medical Center after a hunting accident in a woods near TR 175 and CR 38 Saturday morning.

Deputy Mark Lawson of Seneca County Sheriff’s Office said friends Ray Matthews and Marty McQuistion, both of Tiffin, were hunting squirrels when Matthews accidentally shot McQuistion.

“They came together,” he said.

McQuistion, who was shot once in his upper body, was taken by Life Flight to Mercy Health – St. Vincent Medical Center. He was in critical condition Saturday night, a hospital spokeswoman said.

McQuistion was alert and conscious at the scene, Lawson said.

PHOTO BY JILL GOSCHE Life Flight leaves the scene of a hunting accident near TR 175 and CR 38 Saturday morning.