Missing hunter found after overnight search in East Feliciana Parish

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The search is over for a hunter who was reported missing in East Feliciana Parish on Thursday, Oct. 2.

A father notified the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office between 4 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. about the missing hunter.

A search then took place in the northwest part of Norwood until an hour after dark, EFPSO said.

They were joined in the search by the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, and the Department of Corrections, which provided their dogs.

According to EFPSO, the missing hunter was a man in his 50s from the Central area.

Searches found his four-wheeler before dark, and the dogs were then used to search for him. It got dark before he was found, and the search was called off an hour or so after dark.

EFPSO said the search group gathered on Friday morning to start the search again, but he was found before it could begin.

The man said he went hunting Thursday morning and eventually fell asleep. He woke up around 5 a.m. Friday and made his way to a highway in Mississippi, where he flagged down a car.

The driver brought the hunter back to his camp in Louisiana, where law enforcement found him, EFPSO said.

They said the person who picked the hunter up allowed the man to use his phone. The hunter called his father, who then alerted law enforcement that he had been found.

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