A boy said to be in his early 20s has died from single barrel shot wounds sustained in Buluyeama Clan, Zozor District in Lofa County after he was shot in the forest by a hunter who mistook him for an animal.
According to the Liberia News Agency, the victim only identified as Johnson, was recently shot in the stomach between Wuomai and Worlorwumo towns by hunter Gbadeh Korboi, who was returning from Wuomai town where he had earlier gone to attend the death meeting of a former sectional chief of Buluyeama Clan, Henry Gbolumah.
Mr. Korboi narrated that while on a hunting expedition on his way home to Worlorwumo town; he spotted Johnson in the forest like an approaching deer and immediately fired him with a single barrel gun.
Johnson reportedly died few days after the incident and has since been buried. The father of the deceased has ordered the release of hunter Gbadeh Korboi from detention on grounds that act was not intentional.
He however advised hunters in the area to be careful in carrying out their hunting activities to avoid killing people. At the same time, hunter Korboi has appealed to other relatives and friends of the victim to forgive him, pleading that it was not his intension to kill the boy.
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When I was not yet born, my grad father who was a great hunter experience such misfortune which led to his imprisonment and early death. It is a witchcraft act by some envious people who turn an approaching human into animal in the eye of the hunter. After you have gunned down the animal then it turn to be human. For my grand father, the whole town went against the act and he was thrown into prison for 7years, but the 2nd year did not end when his enemy sent serpents into the prison room to kill him. Before he die, he told my father who was then a 12yrs old boy and visiting him to get educated and live in a civilized environment.