DUBOIS — A 48-year-old California lieutenant with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office died Sunday morning after he was accidentally shot while on a hunting trip.

Clark County Coroner Brenda Laird identified the man as Nathan Thomas Kaas.

According to Clark County Sheriff Mark McClure, dispatch received a call at 5:55 a.m. Sunday morning, reporting a man had been shot while on a hunting trip with a relative near the Sheep Creek area.

McClure says Kaas accidentally shot himself in the leg and died from blood loss.

No other information was available.

This is the second hunting-related gun death in eastern Idaho this weekend. Kaylanee Orr from Blackfoot died from an accidental gunshot wound during a hunting trip on Friday.

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