Peter J. Kolofsky, 46, of Sebago, Maine, was fatally shot on November 5, 2011 while deer hunting in woods near his home. A husband and father of two, Kolofsky was an experienced outdoorsman wearing a blaze orange vest; friends and neighbors remembered him as a hardworking logger, carpenter, and commercial fisherman who was generous and devoted to his family.

The Maine Warden Service determined the shooting to be a hunting accident after finding that 61-year-old hunter William Briggs, who was not with Kolofsky’s party, fired when he thought he saw antlers in brush and mistakenly shot Kolofsky. Briggs immediately called for help, but Kolofsky was pronounced dead at the scene from a single gunshot wound. Investigators characterized the case as a clear failure to properly identify a target.

Briggs, described as distraught and with no prior criminal history, was indicted on a manslaughter charge and later pleaded guilty; he received a prison sentence with most time suspended and probation that included community service related to hunting safety. Did anyone in the area that day see or hear anything that could clarify how the two hunters came to be in the same brushy patch?