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A late evening varmint hunt on land south of Christoval turned into a search for a missing person late Friday night and stretched into Saturday afternoon.
On Friday, June 18, at 11:14 p.m., the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office responded to a distress call from an individual who advised he was in a dangerous situation. He made the call on his cell phone. The nature of the problem was not immediately clear due to the caller being in an area with very poor cell service, the Sheriff’s Office stated.
After further investigation by the Sheriff’s Office, they determined the caller had been hunting with friends and became separated from his group. The hunter subsequently was lost on unfamiliar terrain at night and remained missing from the time the Sheriff was called until daytime hours Saturday afternoon.
A ground and air search was initiated for the lost hunter. The lost…
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