An Alberta man has been charged in the accidental fatal shooting of his hunting partner.
Lacombe resident, 57-year-old Herbert Stanley Meister is set to make an appearance in a Red courtroom Wednesday for a bail hearing.
The man is charged with criminal negligence by discharging a firearm causing death and having a gun while prohibited from possessing a firearm.
RCMP reported that a 55-year-old man from Bentley, Alta was fatally shot after Meister had mistaken him to be a deer.
Phil Moore was pronounced dead at the scene.
And in a separate hunting incident, a 49-year-old female was shot Monday by hunters while in her home northeast of Eckville.
Susan Lightbown was sitting in a chair in an upstairs room when a bullet passed through a wall of her home, struck the chair, and hit her leg.
Four hunters told police they were in a nearby field and had taken two shots at a deer, when one of their bullets struck the woman's residence.
Charges are now pending against a 34-year-old Airdrie man who fired the shot.
The female was taken to hospital with a non-life-threatening leg injury.
