Hunter Dies When Bear Falls from Tree After Being Shot and Lands on Him

A Virginia hunter is dead after a bear shot by one of his fellow hunters fell out of a tree and landed on him.

CBS News reported the incident Tuesday, noting that it occurred on December 9, 2024.

The incident unfolded as a group of hunters were tracking a bear and it ran up a tree. One of the hunters then shot the animal and it fell on 58-year-old Lester C. Harvey.

Harvey was transported to a hospital “in serious but stable condition,” then succumbed to his injuries, KSBY reported.

The New York Post noted that Harvey was “a married father of five with eight grandchildren.”

The Post pointed that a bear hunter in North Carolina was injured in 2019 when a bear that had been shot “fell out of the tree and began biting the hunter.” Consequently, the bear and the hunter “tumbled off a cliff,” leaving the hunter hospitalized and the bear dead.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, a Pulsar Night Vision pro-staffer, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly: awrhawkins@breitbart.com.