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Six Nations hockey legend Stan Jonathan has been charged with criminal negligence causing death in the hunting accident that killed a Hamilton man Sunday.

Mountain resident Peter Kosid was bow hunting when he was shot in the back and killed at about 8 a.m. Six Nations police said a deer hunter shot from the roadway across a field along 3rd Line road.

Kosid was struck by the bullet more than three football fields away.

On Wednesday, Six Nations Police arrested and charged Jonathan, an Ohsweken resident and former NHL player who was celebrated for his hockey fighting skills with the Boston Bruins in the late 1970s.

Jonathan declined to comment in a brief interview with the Spectator Tuesday at his home.

Peter Kosid’s brother, Brad, said he felt the charge was appropriate.

“It’s not like we think (the shooter) did it on purpose, but it was so careless,” he said Wednesday. “It was a split-second decision that cost a life.”

Police say Kosid was shot at a range of about 375 metres Sunday as he was hunting on land owned by a friend. They say the shot came from an adjacent road. The ministry of natural resources says it does not regulate hunting on First Nations lands.

More to come.

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