November 5, 2011
From Wane.com
NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. (WANE) - A deer hunter was shot Saturday
afternoon while in a tree stand near North Webster.
Indiana Conservation officers said around 3:30 p.m. three
juveniles from the Warsaw area were squirrel hunting on the DNR
Tri-County Fish & Wildlife property.
A sixteen-year-old hunter told officers that he fired two shots
from his .22 rifle at what he thought was the flicker of a
squirrel’s tail.
Trenton Wogoman, 33 of Napanee, was hit by one of the shots in
the lower abdomen. He was hunting deer from an elevated deer stand.
The officers said the sixteen-year-old realized that what he saw
was not a squirrel when Wogoman shouted, “You shot me.”
The squirrel hunters helped Wogoman get out of his tree stand,
called 911, and helped him to a nearby road for assistance.
North Webster EMS took Wogoman to Kosciusko Community Hospital.
Samaritan helicopter then flew him to Lutheran Hospital in Fort
Wayne where he is in fair condition.
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