(Arnolds Park)– We’re learning additional information into a weekend hunting accident in Dickinson county. As we reported previously, the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office received a report of the incident in the Spring Run Wildlife Management Area around 8:17 am Saturday. A press release from the Iowa DNR says the victim sustained a gunshot wound while waterfowl hunting with friends. The victim was located in the Wildlife Management Area and was airlifted to Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls.
According to a GoFundMe created by his aunt, Joe Salmon, a Senior at Okoboji High School, was hunting with friends when he was shot in the head. He was taken to a Sioux Falls Hospital where he was taken into surgery.
In a recent update posted by his aunt, Salmon was placed in a medically-induced coma, and is now “moving his legs a little bit more and squeezing hands.”
Several benefits have been started to help with Salmon’s medical expenses, including a fundraiser at the Ruthven Locker, t-shirts, and a benefit account at Liberty National Bank.
Salmon was among five men who helped rescue a man and his dog last winter after a vehicle they were in went though the ice under the causeway bridge between East and West Lake Okoboji.
