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‘One careless shot and my husband is taken away from me’
SIX NATIONS
Sabina Marrone knows frustratingly little about the mysterious hunting accident that killed her 28-year-old fiancé Sunday.
She doesn’t understand why a man who police say was deer hunting would fire a shot from the side of a road lined with houses across a vast farm field off-limits to gun hunting.
Her only certainty is her husband-to-be, avid hunter and outdoorsman Peter Kosid, would never have taken the kind of shot that killed him.
“I hope everyone learns from this … Line up your shot, see what you’re shooting at,” said an emotional Marrone, a day after the father of her eight-month-old son died on a Six Nations property.
“I’m told (the hunter is) very remorseful, but that means nothing to me right now. One careless shot and my husband is taken away from me.”
Six Nations police said a deer hunter fired a bullet more than 375 metres from the road into a line of trees on a Third Line Road property just before 8 a.m.
Police wouldn’t comment Monday on the hunter’s target, but the bullet felled Kosid, who was bow hunting on the farm property at the invitation of the landowner.
Unspecified charges are pending against the hunter, said Constable Derrick Anderson, but the Ohsweken resident hadn’t been identified as of late Monday.
Anderson said Six Nations police were still investigating the circumstances of the shooting with help from OPP forensics experts, including whether it was legal for either man to be hunting that day.
Anderson didn’t respond to questions about hunting rules on the reserve, or whether provincial gun and bow regulations are enforced.
He also wouldn’t say what kind of gun was used because the information could be relevant to the ongoing investigation.
The landowner confirmed he had invited Kosid, a friend and colleague, to bow hunt on the property on that and other occasions. No one had permission to hunt with a rifle or shotgun on the Third Line Road farm, he said.
Kosid was shot across a wide-open field, near an outlier of trees that reached from the forest back toward the farm. The section of road near the intersection of Tuscarora Road is lined with farms and small houses.
Marrone said the coroner told her Kosid was shot in the back and died quickly from blood loss.
At her Mountain home Monday, Marrone said she was struggling to come to grips with the loss of the father of their infant son, Robbie, and stepdaughter, Ava, 4.
Marrone tearfully recalled her fiancé’s love of outdoor sports, especially traditional bow hunting. “He was out there every weekend … he was so happy outdoors,” she said, noting the canoe and fishing rods in the garage.
Marrone said she planned to scatter Kosid’s ashes at Turtle Lake, one of his favourite northern canoeing destinations.
Friends and colleagues were shocked by the aspiring electrical forester’s death, said Mike Ritchie, a Hydro One supervisor who helped train Kosid as an apprentice.
“He was one of the best, eager and talented, always with a smile on his face,” he said. “He obviously loved it outside, so it was a natural (job) for him.”
Ritchie said Kosid and many of his colleagues worked and played together, canoeing or hunting. “But he talked the most about his family,” he added.
His co-workers plan to set up a bank account Tuesday for donations to Kosid’s family, he said. Details will be posted to the Hydro One website.
mvandongen@thespec.com
905-526-3241 | @Mattatthespec
very sad news
be safe out there people
‘One careless shot and my husband is taken away from me’
SIX NATIONS
Sabina Marrone knows frustratingly little about the mysterious hunting accident that killed her 28-year-old fiancé Sunday.
She doesn’t understand why a man who police say was deer hunting would fire a shot from the side of a road lined with houses across a vast farm field off-limits to gun hunting.
Her only certainty is her husband-to-be, avid hunter and outdoorsman Peter Kosid, would never have taken the kind of shot that killed him.
“I hope everyone learns from this … Line up your shot, see what you’re shooting at,” said an emotional Marrone, a day after the father of her eight-month-old son died on a Six Nations property.
“I’m told (the hunter is) very remorseful, but that means nothing to me right now. One careless shot and my husband is taken away from me.”
Six Nations police said a deer hunter fired a bullet more than 375 metres from the road into a line of trees on a Third Line Road property just before 8 a.m.
Police wouldn’t comment Monday on the hunter’s target, but the bullet felled Kosid, who was bow hunting on the farm property at the invitation of the landowner.
Unspecified charges are pending against the hunter, said Constable Derrick Anderson, but the Ohsweken resident hadn’t been identified as of late Monday.
Anderson said Six Nations police were still investigating the circumstances of the shooting with help from OPP forensics experts, including whether it was legal for either man to be hunting that day.
Anderson didn’t respond to questions about hunting rules on the reserve, or whether provincial gun and bow regulations are enforced.
He also wouldn’t say what kind of gun was used because the information could be relevant to the ongoing investigation.
The landowner confirmed he had invited Kosid, a friend and colleague, to bow hunt on the property on that and other occasions. No one had permission to hunt with a rifle or shotgun on the Third Line Road farm, he said.
Kosid was shot across a wide-open field, near an outlier of trees that reached from the forest back toward the farm. The section of road near the intersection of Tuscarora Road is lined with farms and small houses.
Marrone said the coroner told her Kosid was shot in the back and died quickly from blood loss.
At her Mountain home Monday, Marrone said she was struggling to come to grips with the loss of the father of their infant son, Robbie, and stepdaughter, Ava, 4.
Marrone tearfully recalled her fiancé’s love of outdoor sports, especially traditional bow hunting. “He was out there every weekend … he was so happy outdoors,” she said, noting the canoe and fishing rods in the garage.
Marrone said she planned to scatter Kosid’s ashes at Turtle Lake, one of his favourite northern canoeing destinations.
Friends and colleagues were shocked by the aspiring electrical forester’s death, said Mike Ritchie, a Hydro One supervisor who helped train Kosid as an apprentice.
“He was one of the best, eager and talented, always with a smile on his face,” he said. “He obviously loved it outside, so it was a natural (job) for him.”
Ritchie said Kosid and many of his colleagues worked and played together, canoeing or hunting. “But he talked the most about his family,” he added.
His co-workers plan to set up a bank account Tuesday for donations to Kosid’s family, he said. Details will be posted to the Hydro One website.
mvandongen@thespec.com
905-526-3241 | @Mattatthespec
very sad news
be safe out there people
