Sunday, December 4, 2005 6:21 AM CST
By The Courier staff
WEST UNION --- Two hunters were shot in the leg in separate
incidents Saturday in Fayette County.
Timothy Lammers, 39, of Hazleton, was injured by a self-inflicted
wound to his leg by a handgun Saturday morning. Lammers was with a
group of hunters Saturday morning at a farm east of the Volga River
State Recreation Area when he was showing a handgun to friends and the
gun fired, according to a press release from the Iowa Department of
Natural Resources. He was taken to a hospital in West Union and then
was transferred to Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo.
Jeff Koester, 43, of Eldorado, was injured when he and a group of
four other hunters were dragging two deer and one of the people in the
group slipped, resulting in a shotgun firing and hitting Koester in
the upper thigh Saturday morning. He was also taken to a hospital in
West Union and transferred to Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo. No
information was available on patients' conditions.
Both incidents remain under investigation by the Iowa Department of
Natural Resources.
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