CBS New York
MALVERNE, N.Y. — A Long Island volunteer firefighter was killed in a hunting accident over the weekend in upstate New York.
Charles Bruce, a 52-year-old father of two, was on an annual hunting trip with friends from the Malverne Fire Department when he was shot in the chest Saturday in Westford just east of Cooperstown. Otsego County District Attorney John Muehl said one of Bruce’s hunting partners may have mistaken him for a deer.
Bruce finished hunting because it was getting dark and was coming out of the woods around 4:30 p.m., Muehl said. One of his hunting partners, who was in a tree stand about 60 yards away, saw what he thought to be an antler, Muehl said. “Since he’d shot deer in that area before, he shot over there,” Muehl told 1010 WINS’ Mona Rivera. “When he went to look at his deer, it wasn’t his deer, it was his friend.”
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