https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2021/11/26/police-investigating-fatal-hunting-shooting-finger-lakes-phelps-ny/8763463002/
11/25/2021
A man identified by the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office as Zachary T. Barse, 28, of Gorham, was fatally shot while hunting in the Finger Lakes on Thanksgiving Day.
Deputies responded to a location at Cross Road in the town of Phelps and tried to save Barse, but were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead at the scene and taken to the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy.
A 61-year-old man, Kevin M. Hudson of Clifton Springs, called 911 to report that someone had been shot with a hunting rifle around 11 a.m. Thursday.
A statement from the sheriff provided a summary Friday: “Mr. Barse and Mr. Hudson (acquaintances) were hunting together in a wooded area on the north side of Cross Road in the town of Phelps. Mr. Barse shot a deer and was attempting to track it. That track was leading back in the general direction of where Mr. Hudson was located in a tree stand. As Mr. Barse approached the area of Mr. Hudson’s tree stand, Mr. Hudson took a shot.”
Barse was wearing camouflage and no orange clothing at the time, sheriff’s deputies said.
The Phelps and Oaks Corners Fire Department, Phelps and Finger Lakes Ambulance, and the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation assisted at the scene.