Oregon hunting fatality brings 5-year sentence

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By Associated Press

COQUILLE, Ore. (AP) - Kelly Johnson didn't mean to kill his friend Cody Armstrong in an October hunting accident, but he didn't immediately own up to it either.

Coos County District Attorney R. Paul Frasier said Johnson asked another hunter to lie and say an unknown hunter shot the 20-year-old Powers man in the head.

On Tuesday, Johnson was sentenced to five years in prison after his guilty plea to criminally negligent homicide.

Defense attorney Ron Cox said the 41-year-old Johnson had no prior convictions but suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after Army service in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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