Texas ranch trader and big game hunter Asher Watkins, 52, was killed by a Cape buffalo in an 'unprovoked attack' while hunting the animal.

Asher Watkins, 52, was on a guided safari hosted by Coenraad Vermaak Safaris in South Africa’s Limpopo Province on Aug. 3 when the animal fatally gored him, the safari company said Thursday in a statement obtained by multiple outlets.

Texas millionaire Asher Watkins, from the prominent Watkins Ranch Group in Dallas, was killed by a Cape buffalo during a hunting trip with Coenraad Vermaak Safaris in South Africa on Sunday, August 3, according to a recent report from PEOPLE.