BENTON COUNTY, Iowa — Officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Sunday, said that around 12:21-p.m. Saturday, a man was shot in the leg in eastern Iowa, while pursuing a coyote across a field. The incident in Benton County happened in a field just north of Highway 30 at 13^th Avenue, southwest of Keystone.

Authorities say 41-year old Brian McManemy of Blairstown, was a passenger in a pickup truck while coyote hunting when one of the firearms in the vehicle discharged and struck him in the left leg. He was transported to a Cedar Rapids hospital with non-life threatening injuries. .

Thes incident remains under investigation by the DNR. The Benton County Sheriff’s Office also responded to the incident.