W.Va. hunter killed in unusual campsite accident
WHARTON, W.Va. - West Virginia State Police say a hunter was killed after he and a fellow hunter built a fire and the heat broke apart an overhanging boulder, tumbling on the hunter.
Senior Trooper G.S. Walter said in a statement that that death occurred Monday afternoon, the start of the buck firearms season in the state.
Walter said 25-year-old Donnie Barker III died at the scene in a wooded area in Boone County, in southern West Virginia. Walter said the fellow hunter, 19-year-old Steven Lee Setser, was injured but managed to make it to a relative's house for assistance.
Setser was taken to Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening.
Walter says the men had started the fire under the boulder to seek heat.