Jay Leggett Drops Dead Deer Hunting
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Actor dies during Wis. deer hunting opener
Associated Press
November 24, 2013 - 4:55 PM
TOMAHAWK, Wis. � A Tomahawk native who was a comic actor living in Los
Angeles died after a day of hunting on the opening weekend of the nine-
day firearms deer season in Wisconsin, authorities said Sunday.
The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department identified him as Jay Leggett,
50.
Emergency crews were called to a cabin near Tomahawk just after 4 p.m.
Saturday. They arrived to find family members performing CPR on Leggett.
Paramedics continued without success. The coroner responded and
pronounced Leggett dead, the sheriff's office said in a news release.
Witnesses told officers Leggett had returned from a deer stand on an ATV
just before collapsing.
Leggett's movie and TV credits included parts in 26 episodes of "In
Living Color," plus one-time roles in "NYPD Blue," ''ER," ''Ally
McBeal," ''Star Trek Voyager," and "The Drew Carey Show," and other
shows, according to IMDb.com. He released a documentary in 2011 called
"To The Hunt," which featured the northwoods hunting culture as told
through scenes at several Lincoln County hunting shacks. He also
performed with the ImprovOlympic troupe in Chicago.
He was born in Tomahawk and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-
Stevens Point, the Wausau Daily Herald reported.
At least two other hunters were injured in opening weekend accidents. A
52-year-old Cascade man was shot in the back of the leg while hunting in
a deer stand in the town of Lyndon in Sheboygan County on Sunday. The
sheriff's office said his injury did not appear to be life threatening. A
32-year-old Mukwonago man accidentally shot himself in the palm of his
left hand while he was loading his .45-caliber pistol in a deer stand
Saturday in Beetown Township in Grant County.