A man shot and killed his hunting partner Thursday morning in Breckinridge County, according to Kentucky State Police said.

Christopher B. Stone, 43, of Irvington, was deer hunting with Nicholas Lee Ford, 39, of Brandenburg when Stone fired his rifle into an overgrown field surrounded by woods off JE Haynes Road in Irvington, according to police.

Ford was shot in the back, according to police. He was taken to Breckinridge Memorial Hospital, where he died, police said.

The investigation remains open.