Post by Woody Williams on Oct 13, 2005 20:22:13 GMT -5
A hunting guide was shot in the stomach Tuesday after one of the three hunters he was with mistook him for a moose.
Quebec provincial police said the 59-year-old guide from Des Ruisseaux, Que., was making moose calls with two of the hunters when a third hunter shot him in the stomach at about 6:30 p.m. in La Verendrye Park near
Mont Laurier.
"We think the hunter thought it was a moose and shot him," said QPP agent Melanie Larouche.
Larouche said the victim's injuries are not considered life-threatening. He has been taken to hospital in Montreal.
POLICE INVESTIGATING
Although police don't believe the shooter, a 34-year-old Les Cedres man, intended to shoot the guide, they are investigating whether criminal negligence charges should be laid.
It was the second hunting accident in the past five days.
Garfield Pinkos, 58, was shot and killed Saturday after a friend he was hunting with fired twice at what he believed was a moose in the water on Lake Ferguson and struck Pinkos instead.
andrew.seymour@ott.sunpub.com
Quebec provincial police said the 59-year-old guide from Des Ruisseaux, Que., was making moose calls with two of the hunters when a third hunter shot him in the stomach at about 6:30 p.m. in La Verendrye Park near
Mont Laurier.
"We think the hunter thought it was a moose and shot him," said QPP agent Melanie Larouche.
Larouche said the victim's injuries are not considered life-threatening. He has been taken to hospital in Montreal.
POLICE INVESTIGATING
Although police don't believe the shooter, a 34-year-old Les Cedres man, intended to shoot the guide, they are investigating whether criminal negligence charges should be laid.
It was the second hunting accident in the past five days.
Garfield Pinkos, 58, was shot and killed Saturday after a friend he was hunting with fired twice at what he believed was a moose in the water on Lake Ferguson and struck Pinkos instead.
andrew.seymour@ott.sunpub.com