ALICEVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Sheriff's officials in western Alabama say they've investigating the death of a woman who was shot during a hunting trip.

Pickens County Sheriff David Abston tells the Tuscaloosa News (http://bit.ly/1DbE8W7) 29-year-old Heather Garner was killed when someone accidentally discharged a gun during a dove hunting trip on Saturday.

Authorities say Garner and her friends were hunting south of Aliceville - which is about 45 miles west of Tuscaloosa.

Abston says Garner was airlifted from the scene to the DCH Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.


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