BERNICE, La. (KTVE/KARD) -- A 17-year-old hunter was killed after an apparent lightning strike in north Louisiana over the weekend.

Emergency responders from the Union Parish Sheriff’s Office, Bernice Fire Department, and Pafford EMS were dispatched to a remote area off Robert Welch Road near the Weldon community Saturday night after reports of an injured individual.

First responders were directed to a secluded wooded location where they discovered Colton Gauge Honeycutt of Monroe inside an elevated deer stand. Concerned family members had initiated the search after Honeycutt failed to return home from a hunting trip earlier that evening.

Preliminary investigations suggest that Honeycutt was fatally struck by lightning during a thunderstorm that passed through the area shortly before su

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