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Jon Dunn ReportingSome passers-by on a North Salt Lake street say they saw a deer stuck between two fenceposts. When they stopped to help they didn't get the results they were looking for and almost went to jail.
The deer darted across Center Street in North Salt Lake and got in between these two fence posts. Jared Auger and two other men stopped to help.
"Thinking maybe we could get it...help set it free."
Auger says one of the men called police, hoping for tranquilizers and a happy ending, but it didn't quite go that way.
"Isn't shooting it a last resort? He just wouldn't talk, he was like 'Get out of here.' And I said, 'Are you kidding me?'"
North Salt Lake police say they had been advised by Division of Wildlife Resources to shoot the deer and that they needed Auger and the others gone before they could pull the trigger. When they wouldn't comply, they were threatened with jail. The deer was shot.
