To all those who think that parks are no place for guns.

[Jackson1999]

http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/09/09/local_news/doc4aa7e7fc64c67512107056.txt

A camper who shot and killed a 25-year-old Olympia man last month during a bizarre late-night encounter along a remote bank on Wynooche Lake will not face charges.

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Drinking heavily

Wolff started to drink a “significant amount” of alcohol, Scott said. Another 25-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy with Wolff told investigators he became “quite intoxicated” before deciding to go for a hike at about midnight.

Scott said Wolff and the 16-year-old started walking along a road when Wolff stumbled into Bowers’ nearby campsite, knocking over camping gear and throwing things in frustration.

Bowers’ family, including his wife and two young children, awoke and he fired a shot in the air to scare off what he believed was an animal, Scott said. When he found Wolff and the teenager in his camp, an argument broke out with Wolff becoming aggressive and Bowers firing two more warning shots.
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Shortly before 1 a.m., Wolff returned to his campsite and for unknown reasons pulled off all his clothes except his shorts and a T-shirt.

“He picks up a black machete,” Scott said, “and took off into the dark.”

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Bowers reported he shouted at Wolff several times as Wolff swung and stabbed at him with the machete.

“It was at that point that (Bowers) drew his revolver and fired one shot to stop him,” Scott said. “He was fearing not only for his life, but his family’s lives.”

Scott said Bowers sent his family to a pay phone and remained at the scene to attempt first aid on the single gunshot wound to Wolff’s chest. Wolff died soon after.

Menefee said Bowers appears to have done everything he could to avoid the shooting, but was confronted with a man trying to hurt him with a machete.