A man was shot and three were arrested in a reported “Bigfoot hunt” incident in Oklahoma, according to local media reports.
Omar Pineda, 21, told News On 6 that he shot his friend in the back after he heard a “barking noise” in Rogers County. He said that the noise spooked him during a hunt for Bigfoot, a mythical bipedal beast that has been the subject of intense scrutiny in recent years.
The man who was shot--not named n the reports--is expected to survive. According to KFOR-TV, he is in stable condition after the bullet traveled from his back through his stomach.
Pineda was charged with reckless conduct with a firearm and obstruction.
“Any story that starts out that someone is on a hunt for Sasquatch, we probably have problems with you from the get go,” Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton told the station.
Walton added that one of the men brought along his wife, Lacey Pineda. A fourth person, father-in-law Perry Don James, helped get rid of the weapon.
“And it was their remarks for going out in the woods or whatever at night and looking for varmints,” he said.
Walton told News9: “If [they] had just been factual, upfront and truthful with us and explained that this was truly an accident, as strange as it might sound, we would have went ahead and investigated and probably nobody would have [gone] to jail.”
Oklahoma has reported several Bigfoot encounters in recent years.
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