MN Firearms Safety

CROSSLAKE, Minn. (AP) ― A25-year-old Crosby man has died in a hunting accident on the opening weekend of Minnesota's firearms deer season.

Crow Wing County Sheriff Todd Dahl says it appears Christopher Stirewalt accidentally shot himself Sunday while hunting in Fifty Lakes Township, north of Crosslake. He was wounded in the shoulder area.

A 53-year-old Duluth man also died Sunday in St. Louis County. Authorities say Hugh Bernhardt died while in his deer stand. Foul play is not suspected.

At least two other hunters were injured in separate incidents in Cass County. The sheriffs office says a Brainerd area man believed to be in his 50s shot himself in the foot in the Chippewa National Forest about 5 p.m. Saturday. A juvenile fell out of a tree stand about 11:30 a.m. Sunday south of Hackensack and was taken by ambulance a Brainerd hospital.