June 14, 2012
By Allie Robinson, Tricities.com
BRISTOL, Va. -- The 12-year-old who was shot in the head
Wednesday during an apparent hunting accident died early Thursday,
authorities said. Brandon Lord, whose obituary is published in
today’s Bristol Herald Courier, was a Christian who had recently
asked his parents to donate his organs if he were to die, said his
grandfather, Carl Richardson. Everyone liked Brandon, Richardson
said, and the community around the 11000 block of Goose Creek road
where the incident happened has been supportive.
The boy and his 15-year-old brother were hunting groundhogs in a
field behind the house when the boy was shot around 6 p.m., said
Washington County, Va., Sheriff’s Lt. Byron Ashbrook. No one else
was hurt, and the boys were being indirectly supervised by a family
member, he said. ...
Excluding this incident, 43 people have died in Virginia as a
result of hunting incidents in the past 10 years, according to
records kept by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland
Fisheries’ Law Enforcement Hunter Safety Education Unit. Of those
fatalities, five were children; and two of those were accidental
discharges that killed the teenager who was hunting, according to
the report. Four fatalities involved children as the apparent
accidental shooter.
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