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An 18-year-old died when he was shot while bird hunting with two other young people in Nightmute on April 26.
“Joseph George was shot in the head at close range by a minor as a goose flew by,” Alaska Department of Public Safety Information Officer Gretchen Weiss-Brooks wrote in an email to KYUK.
She says the three young people were “hunting a few hundred feet from the Nightmute airport.” Village health aides responded to the scene, and “for the death to be officially declared,” the health aides contacted the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation to confirm that George was dead.