• By Keith Gushard Meadville Tribune
• 11 hrs ago
• https://www.meadvilletribune.com/news/pennsylvania-game-commission-no-charges-in-separate-hunting-related-accidents/article_fcc5dfa2-6288-11ec-9a1f-53e5f26bb315.html

The Pennsylvania Game Commission won’t file charges in connection with a fatal November hunting-related shooting in Warren County nor in a separate hunting accident earlier this month in Crawford County.

Investigations into the separateincidents have been completedwith no chargesfiled, Jason Amory told the Tribune. Amory is theinformation and education officer with the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Northwest Regional Office in Franklin.

Gary Hunt, 64, of Corry, died after he was shot fatally in the abdomen byhis hunting companion’s .270-caliber rifleas the two men were crossing a creek around noon Nov. 20 in western Warren County. The two men were bear hunting onState Game Lands 197 in Columbus Township, west of Corry.Hunt’s companion slipped or tripped as the two crossed the stream with an unintentional discharge of the companion’s rifle.

“There was no way to tell whether the safety (on the rifle) was…