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A teenage hunter was convicted of second-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting a hiker he had mistaken for a bear. Judge Susan Cook acquitted 15-year-old Tyler J. Kales of first-degree manslaughter. The judge found Tyler hadn’t acted recklessly when he shot Pamela Almli in the head on Sauk Mountain north of Seattle in August. He faces up to three months in a juvenile facility when he is sentenced July 10.
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