Southwest Outdoors Club

[Dean]

Star News ServicesJanuary 9, 2010



Four children are fatherless after a Sagkeeng, Man., First Nation man was fatally shot while hunting early Thursday.

Jason Guimond, 35, was hunting on Crown land when he was shot, police said.

RCMP continue to investigate the shooting, but Guimond's mother, Leona Bacon, said she has been told her son was shot by one of the members of the hunting party.

"I always told him to be careful in the bush."

Bacon said she last spoke with her son by telephone on Christmas. "He said he loved me -- he always told me 'I love you.'"

Bacon said her son's four children are all 17 years old or younger. She said her son also has one grandchild.

Sagkeeng, with a population of more than 5,000, is located about 145 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.