Kenneth Franklin Lafferty III, 20, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, died on November 20, 2017 while deer hunting. The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources media representative described the death as a single-subject incident while hunting deer with a rifle, indicating no other people were involved. The fatality occurred around noon and was investigated by DNR Police officers.

Lafferty was born June 6, 1997, in Toledo, Ohio, to Kenneth and Dawn Clift Lafferty. It is not known from the report whether any additional details about the cause were released.

Did anyone in the New Martinsville hunting community know Kenneth or have information about that day?