A tragic incident occurred in Union Parish, Louisiana, where 17-year-old Colton Gauge Honeycutt was killed by a lightning strike while hunting . On Saturday evening (October 18), Honeycutt was in an elevated deer stand near the Weldon community in Bernice when thunderstorms swept through the area. Concerned family members alerted authorities when he did not return from his hunting trip.

First responders arrived at the scene on Robert Welch Road around 8:30 p.m. local time, where they discovered Honeycutt's body in the tree stand. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and investigators from the Union Parish Sheriff’s Office believe a lightning strike caused his death .

Colton's uncle, Craig S. Honeycutt , expressed the family's grief in a Facebook post, describing the event as "a

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