Asher Watkins was a Texas native who graduated from Baylor University and made his money in ranch real estate. He was an outdoorsy big-game hunter who often shared his trophy animal photos on Facebook.
That Facebook page never had too much activity, by the look of it, other than maybe one or two comments under each picture of him beside his freshly killed trophy. Now it’s getting a few more comments from people who are expressing their displeasure with his trophy hunting, some talking up his recent death to karma.
On August 3, while on a hunting expedition in South Africa’s Limpopo province, the 52-year-old Watkins was killed while tracking a Cape buffalo, which goes by the nickname “The Black Death” for its reputation as one of Africa’s most dangerous big-game species. It proved to be a