VA DGIF Says Deadly Shootings with Non-Hunter Victims Rare

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Posted: 5:16 PM Nov 19, 2009 VA DGIF Says Deadly Shootings with Non-Hunter Victims Rare ROANOKE, Va. (AP) Fatal hunting-related shootings in which a non-hunter is a victim are rare in Virginia.

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Fatal hunting-related shootings in which a non-hunter is a victim are rare in Virginia.

Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries spokeswoman Julia Dixon says none of the 39 firearms-related fatalities recorded since 1998 involved a non-hunter.

A Ferrum man faces manslaughter and other charges after authorities say he fired at a group of Ferrum College students he mistook for a deer Tuesday. One student was killed and the other was wounded.

While hunting related-shootings involving non-hunters are rare, Capt. Bobby Mawyer with the department says a hunter mistaking a person for an animal isn't.

According to the department's figures, 17 of the fatal shootings since 1998 involved a hunter shooting at what he thought was an animal.

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