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Pet deer’s killer pleads guilty
Bloomingdale — A Georgia hunter has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges for shooting a family’s pet deer as it roamed their Chatham County neighborhood west of Savannah.
A Bloomingdale Municipal Court judge sentenced 19-year-old Vincent Helmly Jr. on Tuesday to surrender his shotgun, pay a $1,300 fine, serve two years on probation and write a letter apologizing to the family that cared the for deer.
Joan Carter and her family named the deer Bambi after finding it abandoned as a fawn two years ago. Carter fed the deer milk twice a day, and her family posed for Christmas cards with it.
Neighbors said they saw Helmly, a licensed deer hunter, shoot the deer outside Carter’s house on Dec. 4. He drove off with the deer in the back of his pickup truck.
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Information from: Savannah Morning News, http:www.savannahnow.com
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