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| Rosemary Billaquist and her murderer. |
A hunter in western New York who mistook a 43-year-old woman for a deer was charged with manslaughter on Thursday.
Rosemary Billquist was walking her dogs the day before Thanksgiving in the town of Sherman when she was shot once by Thomas Jadlowski.
Jadlowski called 911 and stayed with Billquist until help arrived, but she was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital in Pennsylvania.
The 43-year-old Billquist was shot at about 5:30 p.m. It is illegal to hunt big game after sunset or before dawn in New York state.
"Today, Mr. Jadlowski is being held accountable for his dangerous and reckless conduct when he shot his neighbor in the dark," Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos said.
Jadlowski was charged with hunting after hours and second degree manslaughter.
Of course if this had happened in Texas they probably would have charged the woman's corpse with wandering carelessly into the path of a bullet.
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