A man from Morgan, Minn., who survived a self-inflicted gunshot wound is charged with killing his girlfriend with a bow and arrow this summer at a makeshift campsite near Franklin, Minn., according to the Forum News Service.

Dwayne Alan Case, 29, was arrested Friday after it was determined he was medically stable to be discharged from North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale. He is now in the Renville County jail in Olivia and is expected to make his first court appearance Monday on second-degree murder charges in the death of Elizabeth M. Gregg, 45, of Morgan.

According to the criminal complaint, Gregg died as a result of a broad-head arrow perforating her stomach and liver. The arrow is similar to arrows found in the quiver in the tent that Gregg and Case had been sharing when deputies responded to an emergency call June 12 that Case had been found in a tent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, authorities said.

The call came from an individual who was at the campsite to bring Case to a job site. That person told deputies that Case had been talking about suicide and that there was a no-contact order prohibiting Case from contacting Gregg.

According to the complaint, deputies found Case with "significant trauma" to his lower jaw. After Case was removed from the tent, deputies found Gregg's body under a blanket on the tent's floor,.

The complaint states that during an interview with law enforcement July 9 at the hospital, Case said he and Gregg had been seeing each other despite the no-contact order. He said he had no recollection of what happened at the campsite.

The gun found at the scene was identified as a Russian 7.62 bolt-action rifle that had been reported missing from a gun cabinet belonging to a family member of Case.

FORUM NEWS SERVICE