News Release

Trenton man injured in Dixie County hunting incident

November 20, 2009
Contact: Karen Parker, 386-758-0525

A Trenton man was injured in a hunting accident Thursday at a hunt club near Cross City.

Michael H. Devanie, 43, was hunting with Michael S. Everett, 40, of Fanning Springs, in the Ray Sawmill Hunt Club near Cross City when the incident occurred at approximately 10 a.m. Thursday.

The men were deer hunting with dogs. They were set up about 120 yards apart on "Squirrel Road," a trail in the club, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) investigators.

Everett was in front of his truck on the trail and Devanie was on top of his dog box in his truck, directly down the road at an intersection. A deer crossed the road between the two men and stopped in the trail. Everett fired twice with a 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun loaded with No. 00 buckshot. The two men were not in view of each other, said investigators.

Devanie was struck in the neck by a pellet, investigators said. Medical personnel transported him to Shands Hospital in Gainesville.

The FWC is continuing the investigation.