https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/12/12/wyoming-gop-committeewoman-charged-with-reckless-endangerment-while-hunting/
12/12/2022
Nina Webber, a Wyoming Republican Party national committeewoman and two-time state House candidate from Cody, is facing misdemeanor charges for reckless endangering while hunting.
Webber, 58, was cited by the Park County Sheriff’s Office along the North Fork Highway outside Wapiti in the early morning hours of Nov. 30.
According to the Powell Tribune, Trout Creek Ranch Manager Cory Williams said he and his wife were forced to seek cover outside their home that morning as bullets rained down on him and his wife. They came from a group of hunters shooting on the opposite, southern side of the North Fork Highway.
Williams said one bullet “whizzed” by his head.
‘Unsafe Hunting’
Williams said he heard about two dozen shots fired as elk congregated on nearby private land near the town’s post office.
Park County Sheriff Scott Steward said although the shots went across the highway, there were no animals on the north side of the road. He also said there were several dead elk at the scene.
The sheriff’s office posted about the event on its social media last week, describing it as an “unsafe hunting” incident.
Shooting across a highway also is illegal in Wyoming.
Webber and her boyfriend, Scott Weber, who runs an online firearms auction site, routinely post on social media about their hunting exploits.
On Dec. 1, the day after Webber was cited, a woman thanked Webber on Facebook for helping her husband harvest an elk during their trip to Cody.