Victim responds to Doering’s deal with prosecutors

Victim responds — Carrol Knutson, Birchwood. Minn., is photographed with her grandson, Jake, while hiking Harney Peak last June 17, just a few hours before Paul Doering, a gunfighter appearing in Hill City’s shootout reenactment, fired live rounds into the crowd. Knutson received a wound and was taken to Rapid City Regional Hospital, where a surgeon removed bullet fragments from her lower leg. [Submitted photo]

By Bev Pechan

Paul Doering recently appeared in federal court and made an agreement to enter a plea of guilty to the charge of tampering with evidence, replacing the initial charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Doering, 49, was identified as the shooter in Hill City’s Wild Bunch entertainment that sent three people to the hospital last June after Doering fired live rounds into a crowd of spectators from the weapons he was carrying.
The Minnesota man has spent time incarcerated in that state on a variety of charges over the years, mainly having been charged with violent behavior and/or money crimes.
Carrol Knutson, Birchwood, Minn., was taken to Rapid City Regional Hospital following the shooting incident, where a surgeon removed what he noted as bullet fragments. Knutson, along with her husband, Don, were on vacation with their teenage grandson, Jake, showing him the sights around the Black Hills before heading on to a whitewater rafting experience in Wyoming. Earlier that day, they had climbed Harney Peak.
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