I would imagine a paraplegic would go out hunting for many of the same reasons a non-paraplegic would go out hunting alone - enjoy the solitude, etc.- who knows?

What is alone in this context, anyway. Note that his friends came to his aid, evidently fairly soon. This suggests that they were not too far away and perhaps had a fairly good notion of his whereabouts.

My point is that typical news stories are far too sketchy to form the basis for a reasonable analysis of the situation, and if you really what to figure out what is going on, you need more information than is generally available from the media.

Of course, that never inhibits us, does it?

It looks like the JC of 2007 could indeed be the hunter in this story. Your point being? - perhaps that accident is the reason he is now a paraplegic. Who knows?