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Here is an article on what may have occurred. We never heard the final results of the investigation.
"Man killed during the blackpowder deer season
Posted on February 2, 2012
Farmington, Ohio - A Brooklyn, Ohio, man was shot and killed on the final day of the state's muzzleloader season for deer.
Nikolas Neric, 26, died as the result of a gunshot wound to his chest and neck, according to the Trumbull County Coroner's Office.
Neric was mistaken for game when he was shot, said Ken Fitz, a law enforcement administrator for the DNR Division of Wildlife. Fitz said the victim was squirrel hunting when he was shot. The shooter, who has not been identified pending a prosecutor's review of the case, is believed to have been deer hunting when the shooting took place.
The incident occurred in the Grand River Wildlife Area, according to the Division of Wildlife.
A man who called 911 after the incident said Neric wasn't wearing hunter orange and did not have a weapon, according to a report in The Tribune Chronicle of Warren. However, the newspaper reported that a Trumbull County Sheriff's Office report indicated that Neric had a gun in his jacket.
Other hunters who were in the woods at the time of the incident were removed and interviewed by police, the newspaper reported.
The coroner's office classified the death as a homicide, according to The Tribune Chronicle.
Division of Wildlife investigator Rick Louttit said he could offer no more details until the investigation is over."