by: Jared WeaverPosted: Nov 28, 2021 / 04:20 PM EST / Updated: Nov 28, 2021 / 08:25 PM ESTjavascript:false
CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ)– A man is dead after being shot in a hunting accident that occurred in the morning Saturday in Jackson Township, according to Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees.
William Tripp, 71, of Elizabethtown, was in the area hunting off of Buckhorn Road in Cambria County with friends and family on a gas line when at about 10 a.m., a minor who was also hunting on the same gas line shot a deer and missed.
The coroner said that the bullet then went approximately 300 yards and hit Tripp in the head.
“This is a heart-wrenching, unfortunate accident that has happened,” Lees said
Officials say that the manner of death is ruled accidental and the minor was related to Tripp.
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Indeed “heart-wrenching” that most states allow minors as young as 12 or 10 yrs. old (9 in Texas) to hunt, kill ‘wild’ animals unaccompanied & seven states, Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, New Mexico, Vermont, Oklahoma, & Washington, set no minimum age for solo hunting. IOW, a 6 yr. old can get a license to hunt, injure or kill deer or bear. And occasionally a person, which the license doesn’t cover, but a person is automatically assumed to be an accidental shooting anyway.