Posted on 10/29/2017 4:58:46 PM PDT by simpson96
A woman has been killed in a hunting accident on the first day of deer season in Maine.
Karen Wrentzel, 34, was shot dead around 10.30am on Saturday morning in a heavily wooded area near Hebron, Maine, in the first hunting fatality the state has seen in four years.
Family members said that Wrentzel was on her own property digging for rocks and gems when the incident occurred.
Investigators say a 38-year-old man who was out hunting with his father fired the fatal shot. The shooter's name has not been released.
Someone from the hunter's party called 911 after they realized what had happened, according to a spokesman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.
Wrentzel and the hunters did not know each other, spokesman John MacDonald told WGME.
MacDonald said the incident took place about 200 to 300 yards off Greenwood Mountain Road in a wooded area. A police investigation is ongoing.
A family member said there were no trespassing warnings on the property, and that Wrentzel wasn't wearing blaze orange for safety.
'The land was not posted and she was not wearing bright clothing,' Joan Joy Tibbetts, a relative of Wrentzel's, wrote on Facebook.
In Maine, hunting on private property is typically legal if the land is not posted or fenced.
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So, someone just took a shot at something that moved??
Send them to prison. Manslaughter at the minimum.
Prayers up and no Dominic “Mailman” Farnham. jokes
“So, someone just took a shot at something that moved??”
Sadly, that happens several times each and every deer hunting season. If you CANNOT guarantee it is a deer, then you do not pull the trigger.
He is the kind of moron that gives hunters a bad name.
Interesting in Ohio you’re required to have written permission for private property and must have it with you while hunting. There is even a space for it on the back of the license.
Does that mean there were signs with NO TRESPASSING written on them or that there were no signs pertaining to trespassing? Probably the latter.
I expect he will plead guilty to manslaughter, get a few years in prison with most of that sentence suspended, probation for some years, and a suspension of his hunting license for ten years.
Prayers for the woman and her family.
The hunter is responsible.
You are taught in hunting class you do not take the shot shoot unless you can positively identify the prey.
You just don’t shoot at any movement or rustling.
ML/NJ
In Maine, hunting on private property is typically legal if the land is not posted or fenced.
Wow.
Could not agree more.
Everybody who we allowed into our deer hunting party had to have a pair of binoculars to use prior to touching their firearm.
I see way too many hunters in the woods without binoculars which means many of them probably pointed their weapon and used the scope. Not good.
I was wondering the same thing. I’m amazed that it’s possible to cross over on to someone else’s land, kill them, and hold them responsible for not observing a particular season.
I quit hunting many years ago. I was in Vietnam and wounded in October 1970. I came home, recovered and my dad wanted to go hunting, early in 1971. We were walking down into the woods, my dad had his rifle and I was along only for the walk. A man down in the woods mistook us for a deer and fired at what he said was noise and moving bushes. By God’s Grace he missed. Dad had to fight me to keep the rifle out of my hands, I was going to fire back and shoot that idiot. My dad cursed him to his face. We left. I never went back into the woods. I was afraid of what might happen.
Ya, I thought the same thing. Is that true?
Wrentzel was the victim, and on her own property. Why would she be expected to be wearing blaze orange?
My God! What totally incompetent journalism...
My parent’s ranch in Idaho is posted multiple places and they are always dealing with trespassers who are hunting. They finally had to keep the top gate locked (which is a pain for them at their age).
Along with the requisite felony conviction and all its trimmings.
Tragic incident, no accident. Negligence is always someone’s fault. Sometimes criminally.
Once the criminal stuff ends, the civil will fix whatever is left of this dudes life, for life.
While she was certainly within her rights to be on her own property not wearing Hunter Orange etc, it could have saved her life...
We all wear Orange during firearm season, even if only a hat while in the back yard.
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