Kenneth Moore

The 2012 shooting death of a Rochester Marine who was teaching a 12-year-old boy how to hunt, is making news again today as police charge the shooter the reckless homicide. (See related)

Matthew Carlson, 25, of Kewanna, was arrested last night at his home on a warrant for last year’s fatal shooting of 28-year-old Kenneth Moore. Investigators with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputies and Indiana Conservation Officers say that at about 7:20 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, Moore, of Rochester, was shot once in the head near North 400 West and West 250 North, northwest of Rochester.

Moore was hunting with two adult friends and a 12-year-old boy on a private plot of farmland when, according to Indiana Conservation Officers, the hunting party split into two groups of two. Moore walked the 12-year-old, who was wearing hunter orange clothing, into an adjacent cornfield, leaving his two friends behind. That’s when Carlson fired at least one round from a 12-gauge shotgun and struck Moore in the head.

Although the group was teaching the 12-year-old how to hunt, in a media statement issued after the shooting, police said Carlson broke state law by being armed.

Carlson was arrested on one C-felony count of reckless homicide, one C-felony count of criminal recklessness and one D-felony count of criminal recklessness.

After the shooting, police said Moore was loaded into a private car and 911 was called. An ambulance met the vehicle on a rural roadway and took Moore to Woodlawn Hospital in Rochester where doctors pronounced him dead.