70-Year-Old 'Armed And Dangerous' Tennessee Man Wanted For Fatal Shooting Of 2 Hunters

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Chance Black and Zachery Grooms were duck hunting when they were shot dead
Police said the person of interest, David Vowell, was "armed and dangerous"
Deputies were interrogating an eyewitness for more information

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) is looking for an "armed and dangerous" 70-year-old man in connection with the fatal shooting of two hunters at a state lake early Monday morning.

Chance Black, 26, and Zachery Grooms, 25, both of Weakley County were shot dead at Reelfoot Lake in the northwest corner of Tennessee. The TBI determined David Vowell of Martin was the person of interest in the double murder.

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Black and Grooms were out duck hunting when the shooting took place at a duck blind, WREG-TV reported, citing Tennessee District Attorney Tommy Thomas. Black was the son of Chief Deputy Mark Black with the Weakley County Sheriff’s Department, the outlet reported.

"What has taken place is hard to process. No duck is worth the life of a man. What we do know is that God is our refuge and strength, even in the hardest of times," Seth Dortch, marketing manager at the sporting goods store where Black worked told the station, WREG-TV reported.

TBI special agents are reportedly interrogating an eyewitness, who is providing deputies with more information regarding the shooting. Cops have seized a boat and a vehicle belonging to Vowell.

"He was just a great. Never met a stranger, always had a smile on him," Jackson Seales, a duck hunting guide at Reelfoot Lake who knew Black, told WREG-TV while speaking of him. "Always, ‘Hey man, how’s the duck hunting today?’ Just a good all around guy. I didn’t know the other boy as well, but Chance, I bought a gun off him this summer."

It wasn’t immediately clear as to what led Vowell to fire the fatal shots.

The TBI has urged people to contact them in case they have information regarding the shooting. Vowell remained at large as of Tuesday.

In October last year, a Pennsylvania teenager was shot dead possibly by a hunter while he was watching the sunset at a state park with his girlfriend. Jason Kutt, 18, was shot in the back of his neck and died at a hospital. Kutt’s girlfriend told deputies she saw a man, dressed in bright-colored hunting gear, standing at a distance from where the couple was sitting. Deputies were looking for the suspect.