The woman was mistaken for an animal during the hunt by her boyfriend
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/07/05
By: Alicia Nguyen, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A Taiwanese woman was accidentally shot and killed by her 
At around 11 p.m. on July 4, a man surnamed Chen (62), who is an indigenous Taiwanese from the Amis ethnic group, went hunting at Sanwan township in Miaoli county and was accompanied by a female companion surnamed Lin (62) and a male cousin.
When Chen spotted what he assumed to be the reflective eyes of an animal, he fired a shot at the target. However, his cousin then loudly shouted out: “You just hit a person!” and told the man to come over.
As Chen he came closer, he saw Lin unconscious in the back seat of the van the group had used and noticed a bullet wound on her head. The two men immediately took Lin to the emergency room at Miaoli’s Wei Gong Memorial Hospital. [FULL STORY]