AMERICUS, Kansas (AP) An Emporia State University freshman died
over the weekend after being shot by someone in a passing vehicle
while he was hunting for geese.

The Lyon County Sheriff's Department says 18-year-old Beau Arndt, of Americus, and two friends had placed several dozen goose decoys in a farm field Saturday and were lying in the snow waiting for incoming birds.

Arndt's companions told police that a pickup truck stopped along a nearby road and fired a rifle shot into the decoys, but hit Arndt instead. The late 1970s orange and red Ford pickup with Shawnee County plates then left the scene.

Shooting waterfowl with a rifle is illegal in Kansas, as is shooting from inside a vehicle or onto someone's property without permission.

State officials say Arndt is the first person killed in a hunting accident in Kansas since 2005.