The sun had already set when Austyn Adamko, out elk hunting with friends, shot what he thought was a young elk.
He called his father at 7:43 p.m. — the cut-off time for legal hunting — and told him he needed help field dressing the animal. He soon realized he had actually shot a fellow hunter, 23-year-old Jordan Darchuk.
Adamko’s father and brother arrived and performed CPR on Darchuk, but the man died from a single gunshot wound to the right side of his chest. Adamko, then 22, was charged with criminal negligence causing death, but pleaded guilty in February to careless use of a firearm and unauthorized possession of a firearm.
He gave police his .300 Winchester magnum rifle. Adamko did not have a Possession and Acquisition Licence because he didn’t know he had to have one, according to an agreed statement of facts heard in Melfort provincial…
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