April 20, 2012
By Gitte Laasby, JSOnline.com
A 55-year-old Dane County man is in the hospital after his friend mistook him for a turkey and shot him in the face with a shotgun Sunday morning.
Preliminary investigation shows the 55-year-old, who is from Deforest north of Madison, and his 56-year-old friend from Sun Prairie were hunting turkeys at the Kendall Lake Public Hunting Property on state Highway 80 east of Muscoda around 6:30 a.m. Sunday, the Iowa County Sheriff’s Office said in anews release.
The 56-year-old moved from where he had been sitting when he heard what he thought was a turkey behind him. He told deputies he “thought he saw a turkey and fired his shotgun not knowing his friend had also moved his position.”
The shot struck the 55-year-old with several pellets in his head, face and neck, the news release said.