The bolt struck local archers and a boy scout troop in New Jersey, killing one man and injuring 13 other people. Friends of the victims said the strike had come out of nowhere.

A lightning strike at an archery club in New Jersey killed a 61-year-old instructor and hospitalized at least eight children.

A 10-year-old Cub Scout is “still in shock” after he was literally knocked out of his socks by the deadly lightning strike at a New Jersey archery range on

Authorities say 61-year-old Robert Montgomery was killed when a lightning bolt struck an archery range in Jackson, New Jersey. Over a dozen others, including members of a Boy Scout troop, were injured in the lightning strike.

David Robinson, New Jersey’s state climatologist, said Wednesday’s lightning strike that killed one person and injured 14 others was a rare occurrence. The strike at the Black Knights Bow Benders Archery Range in Jackson killed Robert Montgomery, 61 of Cinnaminson, and injured over a dozen Cub Scouts, one as young as 7.