Two elk hunters found dead in southern Colorado after a massive search were the victims of a lightning strike, according to Bridget Murphy, the fiancée of victim Andew Porter.

“It is OFFICIAL, that a lightning strike to the ground took them in an instant. They didn’t do anything wrong, they didn’t feel fear or pain,” Murphy wrote in a Facebook post. “He was just trying to get back to the car as storms rolled in on Friday – September 12. It was out of everyone’s hands, and I am so grateful we found them so they can be at peace. He was an experienced outdoorsman, who was in the wrong spot at the wrong time.”

Conejos County coroner Richard Martin did not immediately confirm Murphy’s account of the cause of deaths.

Conejos County Sheriff Garth Crowther said Porter and Stasko were found clot

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