On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 2021, a hunting trip in the woods of Phelps, New York, ended in tragedy with the death of 28-year-old Zachary Thomas Barse of Gorham. The young man, a graduate of Marcus Whitman Central School, was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting and fishing. On that fateful morning, he was out hunting with an acquaintance, 61-year-old Kevin Hudson of Clifton Springs.
The incident unfolded after Barse had shot a deer and went to track it through a wooded area off
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