当局称，一名17岁的男孩周末在路易斯安那州猎鹿时被雷击身亡。
据联合教区治安官达斯丁·盖茨称，科尔顿·盖奇·霍尼卡特周六在伯尼斯地区独自打猎时失踪。
据盖茨说，当他打猎未归时，他的家人开始担心起来，去寻找他。据报道，他受伤了，联合教区治安官办公室的代表，以及Bernice消防局和Pafford EMS，在当地时间周六晚上8点30分左右做出了回应，治安官办公室说。
根据警长办公室的说法，第一批响应者被指引到一个偏远的林地，霍尼卡特位于一个高架鹿站。
“调查人员认为霍尼卡特是在周六傍晚日落前雷暴穿过该地区时被雷击致死的，”警长办公室在一份声明中说声明.
警长办公室说，联合教区验尸官办公室宣布这名少年当场死亡。
该事件仍在调查中。
盖茨周一告诉ABC新闻，他的办公室仍在等待尸检报告。
“我已经做了50年了，这是我第一次看到这样的事情，”他告诉ABC新闻。
伯尼斯位于什里夫波特东北约80英里处。
什里夫波特的国家气象局建议，周六下午，分散的阵雨和雷雨“越来越严重的可能性”正在穿过俄克拉荷马州东南部和德克萨斯州东北部进入路易斯安那州。
据美国气象局称，霍尼卡特的死亡标志着美国第20起雷击死亡事件，也是今年以来路易斯安那州的第一起国家雷电安全委员会.
Teen killed in apparent lightning strike while hunting deer in Louisiana: Sheriff
A 17-year-old boy was killed over the weekend in an apparent lightning strike while hunting deer in Louisiana, authorities said.
Colton Gauge Honeycutt went missing while hunting alone on Saturday in the Bernice area, according to Union Parish Sheriff Dusty Gates.
His family members became concerned when he never returned from hunting and went looking for him, according to Gates. He was reported injured and Union Parish Sheriff's Office deputies, along with the Bernice Fire Department and Pafford EMS, responded around 8:30 p.m. local time Saturday, the sheriff's office said.
The first responders were directed to a remote, wooded area, where Honeycutt was located in an elevated deer stand, according to the sheriff's office.
"Investigators believe Honeycutt was killed by a lightning strike when thunderstorms moved through the area, just before sunset Saturday evening," the sheriff's office said in astatement.
The Union Parish Coroner's Office pronounced the teen dead at the scene, the sheriff's office said.
The incident remains under investigation.
Gates told ABC News on Monday that his office is still awaiting the autopsy report.
"I've been doing this for 50 years -- first time I've seen anything like this," he told ABC News.
Bernice is located nearly 80 miles northeast of Shreveport.
The National Weather Service in Shreveport had advised that scattered showers and thunderstorms with "increasing severe potential" were moving across southeast Oklahoma and northeast Texas into Louisiana Saturday afternoon.
Honeycutt's death marked the 20th lightning fatality in the U.S., and the first in Louisiana, so far this year, according to theNational Lightning Safety Council.
