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SKIATOOK -- An apparent accidental shooting claimed the life of a man near Skiatook on Monday.
Osage County Sheriff's Office investigators said that David L. Reed, 56, of Skiatook, was working on farm equipment with three relatives at a home on West Oak Street around 10 a.m. Monday when a stray bullet discharged by two men who were target shooting about 200 yards away and across a creek struck him in the left side.
A line of trees blocks the view from the target-shooting area to the house where Reed was killed.
Wes Reed, a nephew, told investigators the incident occurred just as he and other witnesses started hearing gunfire, said Undersheriff Lou Ann Brown.
Relatives and Skiatook EMS medics attempted to revive him but Reed was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sheriff Ty Koch said four guns were recovered at the scene. All were semiautomatics, three of them pistols and one rifle. All were legal weapons, an investigator said. It is unknown which gun discharged the fatal bullet.
The identity of the two men target shooting has not yet been released. Investigators were still at the scene Monday afternoon.
No arrests had been made and Brown said the case will be sent to the Osage County District Attorney's Office for consideration of charges.
The two shooters were in their early 20s, she said.
"It's one of those accidents," Brown said. "Hindsight's 20-20. There was a creek between them and a tree line there. They weren't visible to each other."
Reed was a bricklayer and a farmer, who competed with his 1955 Allis Chalmers tractor in pulling contests at fairs and events such as Skiatooks Pioneer Days, Brown said. Reed has a wife and four children as well as several grandchildren, she said.
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SKIATOOK -- An apparent accidental shooting claimed the life of a man near Skiatook on Monday.
Osage County Sheriff's Office investigators said that David L. Reed, 56, of Skiatook, was working on farm equipment with three relatives at a home on West Oak Street around 10 a.m. Monday when a stray bullet discharged by two men who were target shooting about 200 yards away and across a creek struck him in the left side.
A line of trees blocks the view from the target-shooting area to the house where Reed was killed.
Wes Reed, a nephew, told investigators the incident occurred just as he and other witnesses started hearing gunfire, said Undersheriff Lou Ann Brown.
Relatives and Skiatook EMS medics attempted to revive him but Reed was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sheriff Ty Koch said four guns were recovered at the scene. All were semiautomatics, three of them pistols and one rifle. All were legal weapons, an investigator said. It is unknown which gun discharged the fatal bullet.
The identity of the two men target shooting has not yet been released. Investigators were still at the scene Monday afternoon.
No arrests had been made and Brown said the case will be sent to the Osage County District Attorney's Office for consideration of charges.
The two shooters were in their early 20s, she said.
"It's one of those accidents," Brown said. "Hindsight's 20-20. There was a creek between them and a tree line there. They weren't visible to each other."
Reed was a bricklayer and a farmer, who competed with his 1955 Allis Chalmers tractor in pulling contests at fairs and events such as Skiatooks Pioneer Days, Brown said. Reed has a wife and four children as well as several grandchildren, she said.
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