AR: ARKANSAS HUNTER DIES AFTER BEING ATTACKED BY DEER HE JUST SHOT: ‘IT GOT BACK UP, AND HE HAD SEVERAL PUNCTURE WOUNDS ON HIS BODY’

In a bizarre twist of fate, an Arkansas hunter was killed after a deer that he had just shot attacked him, according to reports. Wildlife officials said that Thomas Alexander, 66, had shot the buck using a muzzleloader while hunting near Yellville, Marion County.

According to Keith Stephens, Chief of Communications at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC)—which investigated the death—Alexander then approached the deer to check if he had killed it.

“I’ve worked for the Game and Fish Commission for 20 years, and it’s one of the stranger things that’s happened,” Stephens told KY3.

“I don’t know how long he left it there, but he went up to check it to make sure it was dead. And evidently it wasn’t,” he said.