Lodi resident and Pacific AgriLands Inc. owner Ernie Dosio was crushed to death by a group of Elephants in Central Africa, according to multiple news reports this week.

Safari company Collect Africa confirmed its client’s death and the injury of a professional hunter, according to the Daily Mail.

California vineyard tycoon Ernie Dosio, 75, was killed by elephants during a hunting expedition in Gabon's Lope-Okanda rainforest, reports say.