A hunting trip in Florence County, South Carolina, ended in tragedy on Saturday, December 27, 2014, when 25-year-old Samantha Lynn Moore was fatally shot after a hunter in her party tripped and accidentally discharged a shotgun while the group was tracking a deer. Moore, a surgical technologist at Greenville Memorial Hospital and an Anderson resident who had become engaged two weeks earlier, was transported to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

She had taken up hunting and fishing to spend more time with her fiancé and is remembered by family for her love of life and her close bond with relatives and her white Chihuahua, Boey. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and the Florence County Coroner’s Office investigated the shooting and treated it as a hunting accident; no charges were filed against the person whose firearm discharged.

Does anyone have information about the incident or knew Samantha and can share memories that might help preserve her story?