A spokesman with the John Oxendine campaign confirmed that the insurance commissioner’s son fired the shot that peppered a fellow hunter Sunday in a Walker County, Ga., accident.
A report released by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources said a 14-year-old boy fired the shot during a quail hunt involving Mr. Oxendine, a gubernatorial candidate in Georgia.
But the Oxendine spokesman said the boy was actually only 13.
Mr. Oxendine’s campaign Web site says he has three sons: high school senior JW, seventh grader Philip and Jake, an infant. The site says JW and Philip are hunters.
According to the report, the victim, Russell M. Robertson Jr., 59, of Chickamauga, was hit with about 30 pellets in the right leg. He was treated and released at a hospital in Rome, Ga.