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.

Witnesses say the attack was sudden and unprovoked. The hunter was tracking the unwounded buffalo when it charged and gored him