Two boys, 11, shot dead on hunting trips around Thanksgiving

Two eleven-year-old boys were shot dead in separate incidents on hunting trips during the week of Thanksgiving.The first incident occurred the week...

November 30, 2022
2:54 PM

Two eleven-year-old boys were shot dead in separate incidents on hunting trips during the week of Thanksgiving.The first incident occurred the weekend before Thanksgiving on November 20 in Wisconsin, where 11-year-old Easton Thom, a sixth-grade student at Berlin Middle School, was shot. A statement from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said that when the 41-year-old man accompanying Thom on their deer-hunting trip attempted to unload a firearm on the back seat of a vehicle, he accidentally fired the weapon and hit the young boy in the chest.

Jess Thomson