Fifteen-year-old Beau Barrios, a ninth grade student at St. Thomas More Catholic High School in Lafayette, was after a particular buck that had been showing up on his trail cameras.
Beau’s dad, Dr. Joey Barrios, who is a surgeon in Lafayette, checked Beau out of school at noon on Nov. 21 and they prepared for the two hour drive from home to their Corbett Farms bow-hunt only hunting club in Avoyelles Parish.
A few days earlier, Beau had a chance at the buck late in the afternoon, but with fading light he was afraid to take a shot…