September 3, 2011
By Kevin Opsahl, The Herald Journal
A 9-year-old Brigham City boy is reportedly in good condition after being
accidentally shot during a hunting trip in Logan Canyon on Saturday
morning.
The incident occurred around 9:45 a.m. One of the participants in
the
hunting group — which included the boy’s father — took a shot with a
shotgun
after a forest grouse flew from the vegetation into the air, said
Robert
Johnson, wildlife resource conservation officer with the Utah
Division of
Wildlife Resources.
“The victim was shot with two of the pellets, one entering into
his left
ear, lodged above his jawbone, and the other pellet lodged in the
rear of
his neck,” Johnson said, based on conversations he had with both the
boy and
the father. “He was about 65 to 70 yards away from the shooter.”
Johnson said neither the boy nor the father saw who fired the
shot, and
added that law enforcement officials still need to talk with other
witnesses
of the incident. DWR officials would not release the name of the
boy.
Rather than call for help, the father transported his son to
Logan Regional Hospital. Calls to hospital personnel on the state of the boy’s
condition
were not immediately returned on Saturday.
“All indications to me, he looks like he’s going to do well and
make a full
recovery,” Johnson said of the boy. “From what the father said, it
sounded
like the one pellet in the back of the neck will be fairly easy to
take out
and the other one (lodged over the jawbone) didn’t go in very far
either.”
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