It takes a special kind of idjit to kill your own kid, but that’s what just happened in Minnesota. A man had taken his 9 year old son on a turkey hunting trip that ended tragically with the boy being shot in the chest, by his father, who had mistaken him for a turkey.
I can understand that hunting accidents do happen and turkeys are large birds, but a 9 year old boy is certainly bigger than a turkey, right? What kind of idjit goes blasting wildly into the bushes at the slightest sign of movement? I just don’t understand it. Are hunters not required to wear those bright orange vests in Minnesota?
BELLE PLAINE, Minn. — The Sibley County Sheriff says that a man who accidentally shot and killed his 9-year-old son while they were hunting apparently mistook the boy for a turkey.
Sheriff Bruce Ponath says that Anthony Klaseus of Belle Plaine and his son Hunter were hunting turkey about three miles west of Belle Plaine around 6:30 p.m. Saturday when Klaseus shot his son in the chest with a 12 gauge shotgun.
Klaseus dialed 911 on his cell phone. Emergency responders pronounced the boy dead at the scene.
“He was absolutely panicked. That would be an understatement,” Ponath said. “Very distraught.”
Ponath said the shooting was an accident but that his department is continuing to investigate the circumstances.