January 8, 2013
From TheCarrollNews.com
According to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, a 50-year-old Fancy Gap man was fatally injured Tuesday night in a hunting accident in Laurel Fork.
Sansford Ray Semones, 50, was shot and killed with a muzzleloader by a juvenile hunting companion Tuesday.
A preliminary investigation determined that Semones’ teenage son shot him after mistaking him for a deer from about 150 yards away.
“The shooter allegedly mistook the victim for a deer and shot with a muzzleloader and it was a fatal wound.”