14-Year-Old Deer Hunter Killed After Being Run Over by Corn Harvester

A young deer hunter was killed on Saturday, Sept. 12 after being run over by a corn harvester. The boy, Jeffrey Powell from Elkton, Michigan, fell asleep shortly after arriving at the corn field to hunt deer, investigators believe. The machine operator, a 25-year-old from Pigeon, was harvesting the field with a large Krone corn chopper.

Emergency responders were called to the field, located in Chandler Township, just before 9 a.m. The machine operator discovered the teenager after driving over him, a news release by the Huron County Sheriff’s Office said.

Combines cut the crop and separate the grain from the plant while processing and spreading the remaining material over the field.

“Unaware anyone was in it [the field], the hunter was accidentally driven over and found by the chopper operator a very short while later,” the Huron Daily Tribune reported. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.

You can learn more about Jeffrey Powell and his life here.

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