ELBOW LAKE, Minn. (AP) - The opening weekend of the firearms deer-hunting season has claimed one life.
Sixty-year-old Craig Rupp of Elbow Lake was shot in the chest Saturday morning while hunting southeast of Elbow Lake, authorities said.
Rupp was a Grant County commissioner. He leaves behind a wife and two grown children.
Authorities said he was shot while others in his hunting party flushed deer out of tall grass. A deer jumped up and shots were fired. One of those shots hit Rupp.
Rupp was taken to Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls, where he died.
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The Grant County Sheriff's Office was investigating the incident.
Elbow Lake is about 30 miles northwest of Alexandria in western Minnesota.
