PA deer hunter who mistakenly shot neighbor in the head pleads guilty to endangerment

[eyecanshoot]

Michael Lloyd, 41, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of recklessly endangering another person and one summary count of unlawfully taking or possessing game. Five charges were dropped.

The Centre County district attorney's office plans to argue for Lloyd to be sentenced to three to 23 1/2 months in the Centre County Correctional Facility, while defense lawyer Brian Manchester may push for no less than two years of probation.

Lloyd's hunting license would be revoked for five years, Centre County Assistant District Attorney Joshua Andrews said.

Lloyd spotted a deer on a hill when he returned from a December 2021 hunting trip, State College police wrote in an affidavit of probable cause. He stopped at the bottom of his neighbor's driveway and fired at least two shots from a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun.

Instead of finding the deer, Lloyd found his then 81-year-old neighbor bleeding in his driveway. He was providing aid when investigators arrived, police wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...5065167800b661

This guy seems to have gotten off way to easy. Recklessly endangering another person and unlawfully taking game? Bullshit charges.

[bogey1]

I would have shot him if that were my dad.

[esh21167]

Good thing it wasn't an AR...

[Aggies Coach]

Well he did try to help the guy. Why no picture of the suspect ??? Probably one of the usual suspects.

[GunLawyer001]

Just curious, how many here think that guy should lose hunting privileges for life, not just 5 years?

Is this who you want armed on the other side of some shrubbery while he's out enjoying "shoot at anything that rustles" season?

[EZ3]

Just curious, how many here think that guy should lose hunting privileges for life, not just 5 years?

Is this who you want armed on the other side of some shrubbery while he's out enjoying "shoot at anything that rustles" season?

^^^ THIS ^^^

[RockIsland]

Just curious, how many here think that guy should lose hunting privileges for life, not just 5 years?

Is this who you want armed on the other side of some shrubbery while he's out enjoying "shoot at anything that rustles" season?

I do! I do!

I'd say he more than forfeited his membership privileges.

I wouldn't have a problem with a much longer prison sentence either.

[ExFlyinguy]

I don't understand why this isn't "involuntary manslaughter".

[Manxdriver]

Just curious, how many here think that guy should lose hunting privileges for life, not just 5 years?

Is this who you want armed on the other side of some shrubbery while he's out enjoying "shoot at anything that rustles" season?

Me! Life isn*t long enough. I*m pretty sure I*d want his guns taken away too. Too careless.

[streaker69]

How is this not homicide considering he used a pistol and not a hunting rifle? Can you take deer with a pistol? Just another fudd that can't be bothered to identify his target.