Safe Hunting?
Foul Play Ruled Out in Hunting Death
Posted on Sat, Nov. 29, 2003
Associated Press
VANCLEAVE, Miss. - Foul play was not involved in the death
of a hunter found dead in a wooded area of Jackson County, officials said.
The 70-year-old man, whose name was not released by
authorities, appeared to have suffered a heart attack, medical officials
said.
The man was hunting in woods near Kito Lane in Jackson
County when his body was found late Friday afternoon, Jackson County Coroner
Vicki Broadus said.
The hunter was found by a group of friends and family, who
had been hunting with him, about 50 yards from his tree stand, Broadus said.
"He just could not make it back to where the group was
going to meet," Broadus said. "So when the group met, he wasn't there and
they went back into the woods and started to look for him. They found him
between where they were supposed to meet and the tree stand."
The hunter died from natural causes, Broadus said.