Vienchaleun Kettavong, 71, of Rush, New York, was fatally shot on September 23, 2014, while squirrel hunting in heavily wooded terrain outside town. He was with a friend and the friend’s son; investigators said the younger hunter raised his rifle at what he believed was a squirrel, fired, and instead struck Kettavong. He was pronounced dead at the scene and the remote location delayed recovery for hours.

Reports identified the friend as KT Kounnavong and the shooter as Phetsouvahn Kounnavong, and placed the incident in woods near West Henrietta Road and the Brooks Gun Club. Authorities treated the event as an active investigation and did not announce any arrest; no charges had been filed at the time those accounts were published.

Kettavong’s obituary listed his wife Saysamone and his children and grandchildren; he was born in Nong Nam Chanh, Laos, and had worked for 20 years in Facilities Management Services at Rochester Institute of Technology. Does anyone have information about the hunt that day or remember seeing the area where this happened?