A hunter in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was charged after nearly shooting a person, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Karen Gaus, 42, was arrested and charged with recklessly endangering another person and disorderly conduct in connection with the incident, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Susquehanna Regional Police Department said in a news release<\/a> that officers responded to Beattys Tollgate Road in East Donegal Township on Nov. 29 for a hunting complaint. Police said a homeowner was outside their residence when they heard multiple gunshots and a bullet passing by.\u00a0<\/p>\n Officers began investigating and found Gaus nearby, who admitted that she was hunting and fired two shots at a deer in the direction of the victim’s home, according to the news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n Gaus, according to court documents, is awaiting her preliminary hearing, which is scheduled for Jan. 12, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pennsylvania’s firearms deer season ends on Saturday. It opened on Nov. 29 and included two Sundays:\u00a0Nov. 30 and Dec. 7.<\/a>\u00a0Earlier this summer, Gov.\u00a0Josh Shapiro signed<\/a>\u00a0a bill that reversed what state lawmakers called the “outdated” ban on Sunday hunting.\u00a0<\/p>\n Before the firearms deer season began, the Game Commission said it expected more than 500,000 hunters would be out and about.<\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hunter in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was charged after nearly shooting a person, according to police.\u00a0 Karen Gaus,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9649,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-59674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-hunting","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}