Good thing they will revoke his ability to hunt for life as well… The stupid is strong with this one!
SHERMAN, N.Y. — A hunter who shot and killed a woman he mistook for a deer as she went on an evening walk with her dogs has been indicted on manslaughter charges, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation.
Rosemary Billquist, a 43-year-old hospital worker, hospice volunteer and marathoner, was killed Nov. 22 while walking her two yellow Labradors, Stella and Sugar, behind her home in the town of Sherman about 5:30 p.m., under an already dark early evening sky.
Hunter Thomas Jadlowski told police he fired a single round from his hunting pistol at what he thought was a deer the length of two football fields away. He heard Billquist cry out, ran to her and called 911. Jadlowski was applying pressure to Billquist’s wound when first responders arrived in the field.
The shooting occurred well after sunset, when hunting is prohibited.
Jadlowski surrendered himself to police and was arraigned today in Chautauqua County Court on charges including manslaughter in the 2nd degree and hunting after legal hours.
Jadlowski entered…