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St Charles County Missouri hiker shot in the chest after hunter mistook victim for turkey at Weldon Spring Conservation Area in St Charles County. St Charles County Missouri hiker shot in the chest after hunter mistook victim for turkey at Weldon Spring Conservation Area in St Charles County. Missouri hiker shot in the chest after hunter mistook victim for turkey at Weldon Spring Conservation Area in St Charles County. Shooting occurred during last weekend of turkey hunting season.   A Missouri hiker was shot in the chest over the weekend after a hunter mistook him for a turkey. St. Charles...

Posted By: Hewson Beattie May 10, 2021 @ 12:12 am Local News, News WELDON SPRING, Mo. (AP) — Authorities said a hiker was accidentally shot by a turkey hunter in the St. Louis area on Saturday. St. Charles County Police Department spokeswoman Val Joyner said the shooting appears to be “a really bad accident.” The shooting happened around 12:30 p.m. Saturday on the Lewis and Clark Trail in the Weldon Spring Conservation Area near Highway 94. The male hiker was taken to a hospital after the shooting, but his conditi...

By Kenneth Garger May 10, 2021 | 12:05 AM A Missouri hunter mistakenly shot a hiker on Saturday who he thought was a turkey, a report said. The shooting occurred just after 12:30 p.m. amid a turkey hunt at the August A. Busch Memorial and Weldon Spring Conservation Area, police told KSDK. The male hiker was on the Lewis Trail loop when he was… '); } return false; }); $('#comments .commentlist .comment-content a').attr('target','_blank'); });

Missouri hunter shoots hiker in the chest after mistaking him for a TURKEY The unnamed hiker was airlifted to hospital in a stable, but critical condition, after a shot to the chest Hiker was on the Lewis Trail loop, St. Charles County, Missouri, on Saturday  Accident happened on penultimate day of the turkey hunting season in Missouri  An investigation has been opened into the incident, but neither man was named 

Font Size: A hiker on a trail in Missouri was shot Saturday after a hunter mistook him for turkey, according to police. The shooting happened around noon in the Weldon Spring Conservation Area, which is nearly 8,400 acres, according to a statement by the St. Charles County Police Department on Facebook. The hiker was on the Lewis and Clark trail when the hunter shot him. The conservation area is located approximately 34 miles west of St. Louis.  Val Joyner, the spokeswoman for the St. Charles County Police Department, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch it appeared that the incident was “just...