Below are a few of the fatal hunting accidents that have happened in Mississippi.

• 2006 - Kermit Gingerich, 34, drown while boar hunting

• 2006 - Raymond Grissett, 54, found underneath an overturned ATV.

• 2006 - Carl Unger, 16, accidentally shot by member of his hunting party

• 2005 - John G. Sheridan, treestand accident.

• 2004 - Christopher Spradley, 22, died of injuries from a treestand fall

• 2004 - Rudy Walker, 43, died after falling from a tree while hunting

• 2004 - Travis Eugene "T.J." White II, 16, killed when a friend's shotgun accidentally discharged

• 2003 - Ernest "Ernie" Rials Jr., 16, shot while tending hunting gear at truck.

• 2003 - Debbie Furr, 51, self inflicted gun shot

• 2003 - Sylvester Young, 81, shot by anther hunter

• 2003 - Travis Powell, 61, shot by another hunter while search for a deer he shot

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