Post by Woody Williams on Dec 1, 2006 7:58:52 GMT -5
Very sad.....
Deer hunter found dead in tree
By KATE BRASER and GAVIN LESNICK
Friday, December 1, 2006
The wife of the Jasper, Ind., man who died while hunting this week said she could never stop talking to friends about him.
Brian D. Beckman, 46, was found dead at Patoka Lake Reservoir on Wednesday night, after he apparently fell from a tree stand while he was hunting and suffocated.
Friends and family discovered his body about 10:15 p.m.
Indiana Conservation officer Tom Jahn said emergency responders arrived about 15 minutes later, finding Beckman hanging inverted from the platform of the tree stand. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
"I always like talking about my Brian," Theresa Beckman
said. "Sometimes my friends would politely ask me to please stop going on about him."
A Navy veteran, Beckman had worked for different furniture companies in Jasper, but Theresa Beckman said his real passion was the outdoors.
Beckman said her husband took her with him to go deer hunting on Thanksgiving Day. It was her first time.
"I was never outdoorsy 'til he came along," she said, explaining deer hunting was difficult for her because it required being quiet for so long.
"But he was patient with me," she said. "He was always patient."
Brian Beckman was born and raised in Jasper. He met Theresa a few years ago, after she moved to Jasper following a divorce.
"He lived four houses down from me and I was on crutches walking up to my door when he came down the sidewalk and just said 'What happened to your leg?'" Theresa Beckman laughed at the memory. "He was always that forward."
Jahn said the exact cause of Beckman's death is somewhat unclear since there are no witnesses, but that it appears something caused Beckman to slip from the stand and catch his foot in the platform railing.
Beckman was unable to free himself, and suffocated while hanging upside down. The official cause of death is listed as positional asphyxiation, which Dubois County Coroner Bob Veatch characterized as the weight of Beckman's body pushing against his diaphragm and suffocating him.
Veatch said the death could have been prevented with a safety harness, which he added typically come with commercially sold stands like the one Beckman was using.
Jahn said Beckman was found about a quarter mile from the road and that he appeared to have been dead for some time when authorities arrived.
Jahn said accidents involving tree stands are fairly common.
"Those are the most high-risk type of hunting accidents," he said. "We have more accidents by far there than we do with firearms themselves."
Beckman said her husband is already deeply missed. He leaves behind four children and two grandchildren.
"But I think I'll be OK because even now, I can hear him in the back of my mind telling me what needs to be done," she said.
Deer hunter found dead in tree
By KATE BRASER and GAVIN LESNICK
Friday, December 1, 2006
The wife of the Jasper, Ind., man who died while hunting this week said she could never stop talking to friends about him.
Brian D. Beckman, 46, was found dead at Patoka Lake Reservoir on Wednesday night, after he apparently fell from a tree stand while he was hunting and suffocated.
Friends and family discovered his body about 10:15 p.m.
Indiana Conservation officer Tom Jahn said emergency responders arrived about 15 minutes later, finding Beckman hanging inverted from the platform of the tree stand. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
"I always like talking about my Brian," Theresa Beckman
said. "Sometimes my friends would politely ask me to please stop going on about him."
A Navy veteran, Beckman had worked for different furniture companies in Jasper, but Theresa Beckman said his real passion was the outdoors.
Beckman said her husband took her with him to go deer hunting on Thanksgiving Day. It was her first time.
"I was never outdoorsy 'til he came along," she said, explaining deer hunting was difficult for her because it required being quiet for so long.
"But he was patient with me," she said. "He was always patient."
Brian Beckman was born and raised in Jasper. He met Theresa a few years ago, after she moved to Jasper following a divorce.
"He lived four houses down from me and I was on crutches walking up to my door when he came down the sidewalk and just said 'What happened to your leg?'" Theresa Beckman laughed at the memory. "He was always that forward."
Jahn said the exact cause of Beckman's death is somewhat unclear since there are no witnesses, but that it appears something caused Beckman to slip from the stand and catch his foot in the platform railing.
Beckman was unable to free himself, and suffocated while hanging upside down. The official cause of death is listed as positional asphyxiation, which Dubois County Coroner Bob Veatch characterized as the weight of Beckman's body pushing against his diaphragm and suffocating him.
Veatch said the death could have been prevented with a safety harness, which he added typically come with commercially sold stands like the one Beckman was using.
Jahn said Beckman was found about a quarter mile from the road and that he appeared to have been dead for some time when authorities arrived.
Jahn said accidents involving tree stands are fairly common.
"Those are the most high-risk type of hunting accidents," he said. "We have more accidents by far there than we do with firearms themselves."
Beckman said her husband is already deeply missed. He leaves behind four children and two grandchildren.
"But I think I'll be OK because even now, I can hear him in the back of my mind telling me what needs to be done," she said.
