NRP Investigating Fatal Hunting Accident

Maryland Natural Resources Police investigators are continuing to gather evidence in a fatal hunting accident late Saturday afternoon in Queen Anne’s County.

Marvin Bowen Coppage, 75, of Henderson was killed by a shotgun blast from a client during a guided pheasant and chukar hunt as he and his dog were flushing a bird from the brush. Coppage was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 5 p.m. by Queen Anne’s County first responders.

The shooter is believed to be a 14-year-old boy who was a member of the hunting party that had hired Coppage, an employee of Schrader’s Outdoors Ltd. The incident occurred off Ell Downes Road in Henderson.

Coppage’s body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy.