Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BARNSTABLE, Mass., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts man is recovering from injuries sustained when a hunter mistook him for a deer and shot him in the hand and back. Jonathan Way, 39, of Barnstable, said he was out running with his dog Monday in the woods east of Mary Dunn Pond when he felt the first shot hit his left pinky and thumb. Advertisement Way said a second shot hit him in the back, near his spine. The police report of the incident said Way shouted, "Stop shooting," in between shots, but Way said he is unsure of the order of the events. "Two or three more inches and we might not be having this conversation right now," Way told WBZ-TV. "I was lucky. I wasn't lucky to get shot, but I was lucky where it went." "I kinda dove to the ground and I looked around and I got behind a tree," Way told the Cape Cod Times. Way said he credits the hunter, Sean Houle, 47, with quickly responding to his shouting and coming to his aid, but he called Houle's shooting random and "unethical." Advertisement "Man I am lucky cause if I would have killed you, I would have just shot myself," the police report quotes Houle as saying. Houle pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges including causing personal injury with a hunting weapon, two counts of possession of a firearm without a firearms identification card, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and carrying a dangerous weapon. Barnstable District Court Judge W. James O'Neill ordered Houle held on $4,000 cash bond.
