There will be no jail time for the Ontario County man who accidentally shot and killed his hunting partner on Thanksgiving Day 2021.
The Finger Lakes Times reports 62-year-old Kevin Hudson was sentenced this week to 300 hours of community service and five years probation for the shooting that occurred near Cross Road in Phelps that killed 28-year-old Zachary Barse, of Gorham.
Barse was tracking a deer he had shot when Hudson, who was in a tree stand, fired at movement in an area of thick brush near a creek thinking it was the wounded game. Barse was struck in the upper body by a single round and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Hudson pleaded guilty to a felony charge of criminally negligent homicide.
