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The Amateur Shooting Dog Championship had just wrapped up when Toronto construction executive Don Frigo and his wife mounted their horses to take their English pointer through one last training run around Ontario’s Hullett Provincial Wildlife Area.

Plenty of hunters were in the area — typical for the last day of early goose-hunting season — but it was just before 5 p.m. when a figure emerged from the woods, levelled a shotgun at the couple and fired off three blasts.

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When he was finished, Mr. Frigo was dead, and his wounded wife was frantically fleeing to safety.

“I’m still in shock,” said Vince Principato, a fellow member of the Ontario Bird and Dog Conservation Association and among the last people to see Mr. Frigo alive.

An executive at Toronto-area Hady Construction Associates, Mr. Frigo, 70, was a longtime member of the Ontario competitive hunting dog community. Known officially as “field trialing,” the sport is even where he met his wife, Eva Willer.