PORTLAND, Ore. -- No murder charges will be filed against the Scappoose family involved in a fight with Portland hunter Frank Means the day he died, a grand jury concluded. Rather, Means was shot to death in self defense by the son of another hunter who Means was holding a gun to.

A Wheeler County grand jury concluded Thursday that Means died after he shoved a 9-millimeter handgun into the stomach of 63-year-old Gary Havlik, in front of Havlik's two grown sons and grandson. Fearing his father would get shot by Means, who was drunk, Daron Havlik shot Means, District Attorney Daniel Ousley said.

The Havlik family was implicated by witnesses as having been involved in a confrontation with Means over a mule deer that hung, skinned, in the hunting camp Means had made on the John Day River during the first week of October, according to Oregon State Police.