On September 23, 2018, 14-year-old Zackary Taylor Kempke was riding in the back of his family’s Jeep on a dirt road in a remote area of the Monte Cristo range between Woodruff and Huntsville, Utah, when a bullet pierced the vehicle and struck him in the head, killing him instantly. The shot came from several hundred feet away, fired by a woman sighting in a hunting rifle using a paper target on a cardboard box; a dense forest between the shooter and the road obscured her view.

Authorities determined the shooting was accidental and charged 40-year-old Kayleen Richins of Roy with negligent homicide, a class A misdemeanor. Richins pleaded guilty, was sentenced to two years of probation, a $2,500 fine and 480 hours of community service, and was ordered to make an educational video and speak to youth hunter safety groups about knowing one’s backstop.

Did anyone in the area at the time see or hear target shooting that afternoon?