ME: 10-year-old boy shot while hunting in Maine
10-year-old boy shot while hunting in Maine
By Associated Press
October 08, 2008 5:31 PM
SABATTUS, Maine -- Officials are investigating a hunting accident
that left a 10-year-old boy with non-life threatening gunshot wounds
after his father accidentally discharged a shotgun.
The Maine Warden Service says the accident happened around 9 a.m.
Wednesday when 52-year-old Claude Bolduc of Bowdoin and his son were
duck hunting in a canoe on the Sabattus River.
The boy suffered pellet wounds to his calf and lower back and was
treated at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
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