RCMP are investigating after a hunter was shot on Wednesday morning, November 11, 2020 near Malonton Manitoba.
Police say that two men were in a hunting blind around 7:30 am in a field across from Provincial Road 11 East when a vehicle pulled up to the field, parking at the entrance. Two men dressed in hunting gear got out of a pickup truck and fired at deer in the field. One of the shots went through a plywood wall of the hunting blind and hit one go the hunters inside.
The 45-year-old victim was transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
RCMP are looking for the two men who were in the pickup truck which police say was an older white Chevrolet pickup.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 204-642-5106, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477, or secure tip online at www.manitobacrimestoppers.com.
© News4.ca 2020
