Update: Hunter who fatally shot 20-year-old was acquaintance, wasn’t drinking[!]

Exposing the Big Game's avatarCommittee to Abolish Sport Hunting Blog

Joshua Morgan

A GoFundMe fund-raising effort was set up to help pay for funeral expenses for Joshua Morgan, who died in a hunting accident on Nov. 17. The funeral was held this morning.

Comment

State Police are still investigating the death of a 20-year-old Herkimer County deer hunter who was accidentally shot by a fellow hunter on Nov. 17, but several facts were released today by Herkimer District Attorney Jeffrey S. Carpenter.

Joshua R. Morgan, of Newport, was hunting with a group of people in a wooded area north of state Route 5 South in the town of Frankfort at 8:43 a.m. when someone in his group accidentally shot him, state police spokesman Trooper Jack Keller said earlier this week.

Carpenter told NYup.com this afternoon that the shooter was an male acquaintance of the victim and was “middle aged.” He said a single shot…

View original post 156 more words

Leave a comment