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A 14-year-old stripling who fatally shot a 54-year-old hiker when he mistook her for a bear will likely subsist charged with first-degree manslaughter, Skagit County prosecutors said this morning.

The male child’s actions “spasm the definition of recklessness,” said prosecuting attorney-at-law Rich Weyrich.

The boy is legally allowed to pursuit in Washington without adult supervision since he took a hunting rank when he was 9 years old. However, Weyrich reported the boy failed to follow basic guidelines in the state’s hunting safety manual.

In particular, Weyrich said, the boy failed to positively confirm his target and what lay beyond it before pulling the trigger upon the body Aug. 2. The boy was hunting through his 16-year-old brother.

The 14-year-old boy from Concrete could face up to nine months in juvenile detention if convicted as charged, prosecutors declared.

The boy’s family and details from the police investigation have not been released, Weyrich said.

Pamela Almli, 54, every experienced hiker from the Snohomish County community of Oso, was shot in the head on a marked hunt as she bent over to put an item into her backpack.

Almli’s family before-mentioned she had been wearing a bright-blue parka when she began her hike, but The Associated Press reported that she was putting the jerkin into her pack when she was shot.

Almli’s family, reached by telephone this morning, had no comment.

Police said the boy fired a .270-caliber rifle from about 120 yards at a distance.

Both the boy and his brother told investigators by the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office after the accident that they had been “convinced” they were looking at a bear, said Chief Deputy Will Reichardt.

The accident devastated Almli’s family and caused an uproar mixed hikers, hunters and other outdoors people who discussed the play in online forums for much of latest week.