Grand Jury: Hunter was shot in self-defense

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http://www.katu.com/news/local/69382957.html

Wheeler County District Attorney Daniel Ousley announced Friday that a Wheeler County Grand Jury convened on Thursday, November 5th, to review investigative facts into the death of 61-year old Howard Franklin Means from Portland.

The Grand Jury carefully reviewed witness accounts in addition to Wheeler County Sheriff's Office video taped interviews, photographs, and collected physical evidence items.

The Grand Jury then handed down no indictments, concluding the actions of those involved in the death of Mr. Means were justified as self defense and in defense of another person.

The investigation was led by the Wheeler County Sheriff's Office with the subsequent assistance of various Oregon State Police enforcement divisions, Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office, and Oregon State Police Forensic Services Division.

(Full story is at the link.) There were independent witness to the event. Dead bad guy had a blood alcohol content of .24. Everybody else was sober.

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1. I do not understand why some people associate alcohol with boating, hunting, camping, etc...

For me, alcohol is something you do in bars, because bars are hopeless boring or annoying without it. But drinking while camping, hunting, or boating has never held any appeal for me.

Looks like the good guys came out of this OK, though they probably had to spend more on lawyers than they had planned for the weekend.

PS disclosure: I am not objective since a hunter attacked my aunt's dogs, and I have to deal with drunks on a fairly regular basis