COLTON HONEYCUTT (photo courtesy of The Louisiana Scene/Facebook)
A 17-year-old hunter from Monroe is killed by a lightning strike in Union Parish over the weekend. Sheriff Dusty Gates says Colton Honeycutt was inside an elevated deer stand in a remote wooded area when a storm came through Saturday.
“Apparently lightning struck the box stand, striking the young man and ultimately caused his death,” Gates said.
Gates says Honeycutt was hunting by himself, so the only way that the sheriff’s department was notified about what happened was by family members who went out to look for him.
“When he didn’t return home, around 8:30 that night, the family became concerned and went to that location and found him deceased,” Gates said.
Gates says the area was hard for first responders to get to the area.
“It was in a very remote area, and it took the first responders a little while to get to him,” Gates noted.
By the time first responders found Honeycutt, he was dead.
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