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Loved ones are mourning a South Jersey man who was killed by a lightning strike on Wednesday night. Robert Montgomery, 61, was at the Black Knight Bowbenders Archery Range in Jackson, New Jersey, when the lightning strike hit him and 13 others on July 17 just after 7 p.
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.