Dad shoots son; mistook him for a turkey
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"Turkey hunters know seeing turkeys in a field, and almost in range, is when things get pretty intense. The elder Klaseus was wired.
"Then I heard something snap or break near me, and a large figure rose up," Tony Klaseus told authorities. "I thought it was a turkey, and I shot it and it went down. I thought I shot the turkey. Then my son jumped up screaming and then fell back down."
Hunter Klaseus never got back up.
The boy was 20 to 30 yards away when his dad shot him with a 12-gauge shotgun. Tony Klaseus called 911 on his cell phone and carried his son a quarter-mile to emergency workers.
Hunter was pronounced dead on the scene.
In a way the story gets worse.
It was reported Tony Klaseus had marijuana and alcohol in his system at the time of the accident. Authorities found two 12-packs of beer, three six-packs and an empty 24-pack at the scene. There was a marijuana pipe in the man's truck."
"Turkey hunters know seeing turkeys in a field, and almost in range, is when things get pretty intense. The elder Klaseus was wired.
"Then I heard something snap or break near me, and a large figure rose up," Tony Klaseus told authorities. "I thought it was a turkey, and I shot it and it went down. I thought I shot the turkey. Then my son jumped up screaming and then fell back down."
Hunter Klaseus never got back up.
The boy was 20 to 30 yards away when his dad shot him with a 12-gauge shotgun. Tony Klaseus called 911 on his cell phone and carried his son a quarter-mile to emergency workers.
Hunter was pronounced dead on the scene.
In a way the story gets worse.
It was reported Tony Klaseus had marijuana and alcohol in his system at the time of the accident. Authorities found two 12-packs of beer, three six-packs and an empty 24-pack at the scene. There was a marijuana pipe in the man's truck."
