Deer season for archery is currently open in Georgia, but firearms season doesn't start until Oct. 19. Meanwhile, Glynn County police and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is continuing to investigate how a teen was shot dead by another man's rifle while hunting Saturday.
Bobby Lane, 17, was pronounced dead at a hospital after police say fellow hunter Hector Romero mistook him for a deer, according to a DNR news release.
Witnesses told police that all of the parties involved knew each other and came to the Myers Hill area to go hunting. Police were called to a wooded area in the 500 block of Myers Hill Road in response to reports of a person shot. Once there, officers met with a group of hunters at Friendly Express on highways 82 and 303.
First Coast News spoke with Lane's cousin who says Lane and Romero were hunting friends and had been on trips before.
Firearms season doesn't start until October 19 and Rawling said Lane and Romero knew of the state regulations.
"I've been hunting for a very long time and in all my years of hunting, I've been told if you don't exactly know what it is, 100 percent exactly what it is, you do not pull the trigger," Rawling said.
Police say Romero helped take Lane to meet with an ambulance to take him to the hospital.
No arrests have been made.
Lane's family created a GoFundMe page to help with the funeral costs.
