A hunter has been fined and his license suspended following an incident on Griffith Island that sent a member of his hunting party to hospital.
On September 28, 2022, a group of hunters visited Griffith Island Hunt Club on the Georgian Bay island northeast of Wiarton.
While hunting pheasant from a stationary line, a Windsor man discharged his firearm and hit another member of the hunting party in the "lower extremities," according to the Ministry of Natural Resources. The injured person was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injures.
Authorities said that the man who shot the gun failed to take reasonable caution for the other hunter.
The case was heard at the Owen Sound Ontario Court of Justice on April 14. The Windsor man pled guilty to careless use of a firearm while hunting. As a result, he was fined $10,000, had his hunting license suspended for the next five years. He ill be required to retake the hunter education course.
