Hunter apparently had heart attack before crossbow injury
(Published Wednesday, January 3, 2007 10:23:33 AM CST)
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Associated Press
SUPERIOR, Wis. - A hunter who died last week apparently suffered a heart attack before being injured by his own crossbow, authorities said Tuesday.
According to a medical examiner's report, Robert Culliton, 68, of Superior appears to have had a heart attack and descended from his tree stand without securing the crossbow, said Detective Sgt. Ed Anderson of the Douglas County Sheriff's Department.
He said the crossbow fired and the arrow went in the hunter's leg, resulting in severe bleeding.
Emergency responders from the county and the town of Cloverland, where Culliton was hunting, were called, but he was dead at the scene, authorities said. He had been hunting with two others at the time.
