The identity of the hunter killed Thursday in Warren County was released on Friday.

Christopher Oakley, 37, of Franklin, Ten., was pronounced dead Thursday morning at the scene in Sugar Grove Township.

According to Pennsylvania Game Commission Northwest Region Information and Education Supervisor Chip Brunst, Oakley was climbing down out of a tree stand with a loaded rifle. “He took a gunshot wound to the left side of the neck when he dropped the firearm,” Brunst said.

Brunst cautioned hunters to unload their firearms when getting into and out of tree stands and to ideally use ‘haul ropes’ to move the weapons up and down.

“This is our third hunting-related fatal shooting this year,” he said.

Two of those Pennsylvania fatal shootings were self-inflicted.