RedactedNarrative: On Saturday January 18, 2020 Victim and his son-in-law left around 0430 in the morning to go duck hunting on the coast of Florida around Shell Point.  
  
  Victim was towing his 17' aluminum boat with a 50 hp Mercury outboard motor.  The two arrived at the Shell Point boat ramp around 0800 and launched their boat.  After shooting several ducks, the two were picking up decoys to move to another location.  Victim told me he was at an idle with the motor in gear, picking up decoys on the left or port side of the boat.  
  
  Subject was near the port bow also picking up decoys.  Victim stated he always wears a kill switch and is very conscious about safety on the water.  At this particular time he was going slow and picking up the decoys, he did not have the kill lanyard attached to him.  
  
  As Victim was maneuvering the boat to pick up a decoy, the motor started sputtering and Victim gave the motor full throttle to try to keep it running, but instead the motor choked down and quit running.  The motor had an electric start button on the tiller handle and Victim stood up, looking toward the rear of the boat and tried to re-start the motor.  When Victim attempted to start the motor, it started in gear and full throttle.  Victim was thrown out of the port side of the boat.  As Victim went out of the boat, he hit the tiller steering pushing the handle to the left, causing the boat to go in a hard right hand circle.  
  
  When Victim surfaced he saw the boat coming at him in a hard turn.  Victim put his hands up to protect his head and the bottom of the boat hit his hands and head pushing him down in the water with his legs up and towards the rear of the boat.  The stern and motor then passed over him with the propeller and skeg hitting him on his right knee, his right thigh above his knee and up toward his groin and between his legs.
  
  Subject, who was not ejected, managed to get to the back of the boat and pull the kill switch to shut the motor off.  Victim told Subject he had been hit by the propeller of the boat on the leg and needed help.  Victim was transported to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital where he underwent surgery and is expected to make a full recovery.
  