Hunter accidentally shoots hiker in Missouri
Rescue crews used a utility-task vehicle to reach the injured man and transported him by helicopter to an area trauma center in serious condition. Author: Kelsi Anderson (KSDK), Robert Townsend, Jacob Kuerth, Jeff Cavallin Published: 3:41 PM CDT May 8, 2021 Updated: 4:17 AM CDT May 9, 2021
ST CHARLES, Mo. A hiker mistaken for a turkey was accidentally shot in the chest Saturday afternoon by a hunter while using a popular St. Charles County trail, police said.
St. Charles County police said officers responded to the August A. Busch Memorial and Weldon Spring Conservation Area on Highway 94 just before 12:30 p.m. after dispatchers received a call that the man had been shot.
Missouri Hunter Shot Man He Believed Was a Turkey in Freak Accident on Popular Trail
On 5/10/21 at 5:37 PM EDT
A Missouri hunter shot a hiker in his chest this past weekend, claiming that he believed the man to be a turkey.
The incident, which is being called a freak accident by a witness, took place on the Lewis Trail Loop in the Weldon Spring Conservation area in St. Charles County.
Officers from the St. Charles County Police say they responded to a call to dispatchers around noon on Saturday and arrived on the scene at the Conservation area on Highway 94 roughly 30 minutes later.
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WELDON SPRING, Mo. A hiker was accidentally shot by a turkey hunter Saturday in the St. Louis area, authorities said.
The shooting happened on the Lewis and Clark Trail in the Weldon Spring Conservation Area around 12:30 p.m. Saturday, St. Charles County Police Department spokeswoman Val Joyner said.
“It sounds like it was just a really bad accident,” Joyner said to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The male hiker was taken to a hospital after the shooting, but his condition wasn’t immediately available Saturday evening.
Hunter accidentally shoots hiker in St. Charles County
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ST. CHARLES COUNTY, MO (KMOV) A hunter accidentally shot a hiker near Weldon Spring, Mo. Saturday, believing he was a turkey, police told News 4.
The shooting happened just before 12:30 p.m., on the Lewis Clark Trail, which is in the Weldon Spring Conservation Area near Highway 94. Crews had to use an utility task vehicle to get the the man in the wooded terrain. He was taken to was airlifted to a local hospital with serious, life threatening injuries, a spokesperson from the St. Charles Ambulance District said.
Spring turkey hunting season in Missouri runs from April 19-May 9, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation.
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