{"id":51416,"date":"2013-11-06T21:30:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T02:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=51416"},"modified":"2013-11-06T17:31:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T22:31:06","slug":"accidental-shooting-in-the-town-of-boonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=51416","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Shooting in the Town of Boonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/state-police-seal-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35832\" alt=\"state-police-seal-150x150\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/state-police-seal-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>(Boonville, NY \u2013 Nov.\u00a05, 2013)\u00a0The State Police in Remsen investigated an accidental shooting.\u00a0 20 year-old,\u00a0Marc T. Donahue\u00a0from Rome accidentally shot himself in the leg when hunting in a wooded area located off Furman Road in the town of Boonville.<\/p>\n<p>Donahue was\u00a0attempting to attach his .308 rifle to a rope in order to hoist it up to a tree stand.\u00a0 The rope hung approximately six feet off the ground, and when Donahue\u00a0reached up\u00a0and\u00a0started\u00a0to attach the rifle to the rope, one round was discharged into his\u00a0left femur.\u00a0The rifle\u00a0was loaded with four rounds and did not have the safety on at the time of the accident.\u00a0 Donahue was transported by Mercy Flight to Upstate Medical treatment where he is in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Boonville Fire Department and Ambulance assisted. The Department of Environmental Conservation responded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Boonville, NY \u2013 Nov.\u00a05, 2013)\u00a0The State Police in Remsen investigated an accidental shooting.\u00a0 20 year-old,\u00a0Marc T. Donahue\u00a0from Rome accidentally shot himself in the leg when hunting in a wooded area located off Furman Road in the town of Boonville. Donahue was\u00a0attempting to attach his .308 rifle to a rope in order to hoist it up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}