EMPORIA (AP) Jury selection has started in Emporia, to start the trial of a 57-year-old Topeka man. Theron Thomas Kent is accused in the December shooting death of a goose hunter in Lyon County. Kent is charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and three misdemeanors in the death of 18-year-old Emporia State University freshman Beau Arndt of Americus.

Arndt and a friend were setting out goose decoys in a rural section of Lyon County.. when he was hit by a shot fired from a passing pickup truck.