A Starkville city employee who was injured in a hunting accident is showing improvements today.
Jeff Lyles, city code officer, shot hunting partner, Ken Honeycutt, city building inspector, in Choctaw County Monday afternoon. Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks are investigating the hunting accident.
WFP officials previously said Honeycutt was exiting the woods when he was shot once in the pelvic region. Jim Walker, public information director for WFP, previously said 48-year-old Lyles was likely shot at a silhouette that he thought was a deer. The WFP offices were closed Friday for Veteran’s Day.
Honeycutt, 38, was taken to OCH Regional Medical Center and has had multiple surgeries. According to the Facebook page of his girlfriend, Caryl Pritchard, Honeycutt “had a good night,” and is “sitting up slightly more” and the ventilator is down to 60 percent. This post was made around 6:30 a.m. Thursday morning she said Honeycutt probably needed more surgeries “to finish cleaning bone fragments from the wound.”
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