Another hunter was shot on Saturday on Martha's Vineyard.
Full text here: http://www.mvtimes.com/marthas-vineyard/news/2009/12/10/edgartown-man-shot-hunting.php?page=all
That makes 4 so far this year.
The Martha's Vineyard Times
Edgartown man shot in Chappy hunting accident
By Nelson Sigelman
Published: December 10, 2009
In the second Island hunting accident in the first week of the Massachusetts shotgun deer season, Peter Jackson Sr. shot Ronald Drake, a member of the party he was hunting with, in the stomach with a deer slug. The two men were hunting with Robert Fountain.
Mr. Jackson, 65, Mr. Drake, 67, and Mr. Fountain, 64, were hunting Saturday morning in thick brush on a section of private property in a remote section of Chappaquiddick adjacent to The Trustees of Reservations Cape Poge Wildlife Refuge when the accident occurred, Edgartown police said this week.
Mr. Drake, a seasonal Edgartown resident from Pleasant Valley, New York, was transferred from Martha's Vineyard Hospital to a Boston-area medical facility. His injuries were not life threatening, according to reports, but there is no information on his current condition.
Mr. Jackson did not possess a valid firearms identification card permitting him to possess a shotgun at the time of the accident, Edgartown Police officer Chris Dolby said. His previous card expired in 2004. Officer Dolby said the investigation was turned over to Sgt. Matt Bass, the state's Environmental Police officer.
Yesterday, Sergeant Bass applied in Edgartown District Court for a charge of possession of a shotgun without a firearm identification card to be issued against Mr. Jackson.
Conviction is punishable by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than 2 years, or by a fine of not more than $500.
Full text here: http://www.mvtimes.com/marthas-vineyard/news/2009/12/10/edgartown-man-shot-hunting.php?page=all
That makes 4 so far this year.