David Nicholas Green, 30, died on December 2, 2021, after a hunting-related shooting in the Preston Branch area of Twilight in Boone County, West Virginia. Green had been working alone in a remote wooded area digging roots and was wearing a black shirt when he was struck by a gunshot wound. The location was far from roads and homes, delaying discovery.

Seventy-year-old Jimmy Castle had been hunting in the same area the day before Green’s body was found. Castle told officials he saw what he believed was a bear and fired; he said he did not see anything fall and left, later returning with another person but still not finding anything. After Green’s family reported him missing, searchers located his body in the area where Castle had been hunting. Castle told deputies he may have been responsible and was charged by West Virginia Division of Natural Resources officers with misdemeanor negligent shooting and felony failure to render aid.

Public reports describe the death as a negligent or accidental hunting death rather than an intentional killing, and they confirm the arrest and charges but do not show a final trial outcome. Did anyone in the area know David’s routines or where he went to dig roots that week?