Hunter charged with fatally shooting a woman he thought was a deer, police say
A Maryland man faces manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges after allegedly shooting and killing a woman he mistook for a deer in Sussex County, according to Delaware State Police.Troopers responded at approximately 7:40 p.m. on Sept. 18 to an open field near South Old State Road, just north of East Robbins Road, following a report of a shooting. Responding officers provided emergency medical care at the scene before the victim was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead.Police identified the victim as 39-year-old Santos Maria Chilel Soto, of Georgetown, Delaware.Troopers took 74-year-old Walter Moorhead, of Salisbury, Maryland, into custody at the scene after determining he fired the shot that hit Soto.According to a preliminary investigation by the Delaware State Police Homicide Unit, Soto was walking through the field with an adult man and two children.
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Moorhead was hunting deer from a ground blind, saw movement, and fired his rifle believing he was shooting at a deer.Moorhead was taken to Troop 4 and charged with:Moorhead was arraigned by the Justice of the Peace Court and released after posting a $43,000 cash bond.
