Sherman, NY – Authorities say a 43-year-old woman has been accidentally shot to death by a hunter while walking her dogs in a rural field in western New York.
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The Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office says Rosemary Billquist, of Sherman, took her dogs for a walk in her hometown near the Pennsylvania border around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Deputies say she was walking in a field when a man hunting nearby mistook her for a deer and shot her once with a pistol.
The hunter heard her scream, called 911 and stayed with her until emergency crews arrived. Billquist was taken to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she was pronounced dead.
Officials say the shooting occurred about 40 minutes after sunset, when it’s illegal to hunt.
Police say the hunter hasn’t been charged. The investigation is continuing.
Sounds like a job for the go’el hadam.
Unfortunately she is a victim of the amendment, ” the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Charge this idiot and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
5:30 PM is pretty dark here in the East coast.
So you take a shot thinking it’s a deer and not even for one moment does he think ‘what if’ it’s not a deer but a human being.
Fool, rot in jail !!!.
I agree with #3; if someone does not know who he/she is shooting at, they have no business firing a shot. We saw what happened when that idiot Oscar Pretorius opened fire multiple times in his home, without even knowing whom he was shooting act. He tragically killed his girlfriend, and today, was finally sentenced to a lengthy prison term. A few years ago, some reckless hunter in Maine also recklessly fired a shot, and killed a woman through her kitchen window. While I agree with the legal right of citizens to keep and bear arms, they still have a responsibility to do so, with caution. The hunter in this case, must be charged with 1st degree manslaughter. I call upon the local prosecutor to do so.
From the little that I know about hunting it’s forbidden after dark and you don’t use a pistol to shoot deer. At the distance that a pistol may be effective he should have clearly seen she was a dear not a deer. Lock him up.
Guys, this has nothing to do with the Second Amendment in general. Hunting accidents are rarer than car accidents, and hunting is a legitimate reason to own a gun. Mass shootings are not committed with hunting rifles.