Hunting Accident:
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/woman-killed-in-hebron-hunting-accident/486831900
A 34 year-old woman is dead after a hunting incident in Hebron, the first such death in Maine in four years.
Game Wardens say the woman was killed around 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the area of Greenwood Mountain Road.
Wardens say they have a lot of work to do in Hebron to figure out what happened.
According to Warden Service Corporal John MacDonald, investigators believe the woman was alone.
He says wardens aren’t sure what the woman was doing in the woods before she was shot and killed by a 38-year-old man.
They say that man was with a small group of hunters but aren’t saying what he was doing before firing his gun.
They say the group called 9-1-1 immediately once they realized what happened.
Saturday was the first day of Maine’s firearms deer hunting season but wardens also won’t say whether the victim was wearing high visibility clothing while out in the woods.
“The details behind this and what led up to it, what those circumstances were, we just don’t know for sure,” said MacDonald.
To gather that missing information, police and wardens are asking key questions, why and how did this happen.
Investigators will also spend a lot of time gathering evidence from the wooded area the woman was killed in.
“We have specialized teams of forensic mappers, people who map these scenes digitally,” said MacDonald.
The wardens say the woman lived near where she died and plan to block off the area around the incident scene for as long their search for answers goes on.
“This is as serious as it gets,” said MacDonald.
He also added investigators are up against the clock to finish their work because of an approaching rainstorm.
They expect to return to the incident scene for days, if not weeks.
As of Saturday evening, neither the woman nor the hunter’s names had been released by police yet.
Wardens say the man who killed her could eventually face charges but they will be determined by the findings of their investigation.
They add the hunters are cooperating with investigators.
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Puzzling. Maybe if you live in hunting territory you have to shelter in place until the trigger-happy nimrods are gone.
That’s about it. Or, if you get shot, it’s your fault for not wearing a hunter blaze-orange vest (available only in hunting stores)…
The murdered woman was not a hunter. She was on her own private land, living her life.
In a long-ago life, I sold Caterpillar equipment to loggers. I avoided going into the woods during hunting season as I had no faith in hunters’ ability to discern a bright-yellow vehicle from a creature, or perhaps, to realize the vehicle was not the cause of their inability to find something to kill. For some reason, the notion of multi-use lands justifies hunting, grazing, mining, and other extraction activities, but the majority of users, hikers, bird-watchers, and the like, cannot safely use the land quietly, without danger of being harmed. Perhaps we need a law that all hunters must sound a five-second-long airhorn blast every 10 minutes to notify everyone that they need be extra vigilant because a hunter is nearby. Of course, other hunters might misinterpret the horn for bugling, but at least they would mostly be concentrating their gunfire on each other.
That would be nice.
Trigger- happy, intoxicated, atv riding, out- of- shape, cold- blooded animal killers killing other hunters. Sounds like karma to me.