Deer Dies After Going Through Window

A young female deer died Friday morning after it went through the front window of a Mount Pleasant business.

Mount Pleasant police Sgt. Eric Relich confirmed for Patch that officers were called around 5:30 a.m. to Check Into Cash, 5201 Washington Avenue, for an alarm sounding. When they arrived, they found significant damage to the front window and a trail of blood leading to the back of the store.

"Officers discovered a deer was in the back of the store, still alive and injured from jumping through the front window," he said.

Police called for assistance from the state Department of Natural Resources, and Wildlife Biologist Marty Johnson responded to the scene to tranquilize the animal.

"Unfortunately, the deer was well traumatized from going through the window and the addition of drugs to immobilize it was just too much. The deer didn't make it," he said.

Johnson said after the deer went through the window it traveled to the back of the store and cornered itself there, not knowing how to escape. By the time DNR officials arrived, the animal was in a panic, and she died from shock.

"Unfortunately, it's not uncommon this time of year because this is when fawns separate from their mothers and new fawns are born," he added.

He estimates the deer was only about a year old and it was a female.

But, Johnson acknowledged the location of the incident is "extremely strange" because it's an urban location without any deer habitat nearby.

Patch contacted the Check Into Cash store, but the representative who answered the phone preferred not to comment and said they would not be releasing photos or surveillance video to media at this time.