LAURENS, N.Y. (WBNG) — On Oct. 16 at 10:48 p.m., emergency crews responded to Gilbert Lake State Park for a report of a missing hunter.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers, the Otsego County Sheriff’s Office, Otsego County Emergency Services, Garrattsville Fire Department, Laurens Fire Department, New York State Police and New York State Park Police and staff all joined the search efforts at the park.
At 3:34 a.m. on Oct. 17, the Otsego County Sheriff’s Deputy Thornhill’s team located the 67-year-old hunter, from Remsen, deceased in a tree stand.
Rangers used a rope system to pull the subject from the tree stand and turned them over to the county coroner.
The person’s cause of death was not released.
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