For the moment, Jonathan isn’t taking any visitors, or discussing days past or present. He’s not talking at all. Facing perhaps a minimum four years in prison, charged in the shooting death of another hunter Nov. 11, the 57-year-old Jonathan on Friday is scheduled to be in a Brantford courtroom, answering to a charge of criminal negligence causing death.

Just over a month later, no one has suggested it was anything but an accident. Jonathan allegedly fired a high-powered rifle (.270 Weatherby Magnum Mark-5) from the side of Third Line Road, approximately 3½ miles east of his house, presumably at a stirring in a line of trees more than 1,200 feet across a harvested cornfield.

According to a media release by the Six Nations Police, Jonathan was hunting deer at approximately 8 a.m. that Sunday, and the lone shot he squeezed off felled and killed another hunter, Peter (PJ) Kosid, a 28-year-old aspiring electrical forester from nearby Hamilton, who left behind a fiancee, their 8-month-old son, and her 4-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

“I’m sorry, I can’t say nothing,’’ Jonathan, far stouter than his playing days, said when a reporter from Boston knocked on his backdoor last week. “Court orders, I’m not allowed to say anything. Sorry, I really am, and I do appreciate your coming by, but we’ve had a lot of reporters here recently and I’ve had to tell them all the same — I’m just not allowed to talk.’’

Kosid, according to a Nov. 14 release by Six Nations Police, was “in the bush, dressed in camouflage, bow hunting’’ and the “two hunters were not known to each other and were not hunting together.’’

Hunters are often required, or at the very least advised, to wear a piece of orange clothing, for example a hat or vest. The police report stated only that Kosid wore camouflage.

“If he had orange on, [the release] would say it,’’ noted Constable Derrick Anderson, the Six Nations Police media officer, using an index finger to underscore the pertinent words of the media release in a brief interview at the police station. “So to be fair to every­one involved . . . it says right here, ‘dressed in camouflage’ . . . so, if it doesn’t specify it, that means he had no orange.’’

No telling if an absence of orange apparel would factor into how Jonathan fares in the courtroom. A call and an e-mail to Jonathan’s attorney, Toronto-based Kenneth R. Byers, were not returned.

According to his parents, Bob and Wendy, Kosid was allowed to hunt at the Third Line Road location at the invitation of his friend, who had the authority to grant such permission. None of the reports in the local press suggested that Jonathan had a similar invitation.

Print and online reports about the shooting also raised questions as to why Jonathan fired his rifle at the side of a road in a residential area. The spot, identified by Anderson when shown a digital image of the shooting site, is between two houses on the same side of Third Line Road. The nearest house, to the west, is at most 100 yards from where Jonathan fired, while the house to the east is some three times more distant. A report in the area’s largest newspaper, the Hamilton Spectator, noted the field was off limits to gun hunting.

“One careless shot,’’ Sabina Marrone, Kosid’s fiancee, told the Spectator, “and my husband is taken away from me.” The coroner, said Marrone, told her the shot struck Kosid in the back and he expired quickly because of the loss of blood.

Criminal negligence causing death carries a minimum four-year sentence when a firearm is involved.

“It’s not like we think he did it on purpose,’’ the victim’s brother, Brad Kosid, told the Spectator, “but it was so careless. It was a split-second decision that cost a life.’’