A doe looks up from grazing in a meadow at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum where a newly initiated bow hunting season is being used to introduce the sport of hunting to those who have never tried it.
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2 charged in videotaped kicking of wounded whitetail deer
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A doe looks up from grazing in a meadow at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum where a newly initiated bow hunting season is being used to introduce the sport of hunting to those who have never tried it.
(Harrisburg) — Two people have been charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and other offenses.
They are accused of kicking a wounded deer in the head and neck and pulling off its antler during a videotaped attack.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission filed charges Friday against 18-year-old Alexander Brock Smith and an unnamed 17-year-old male.
The attack during the state’s hunting season in November is characterized in an arrest warrant as the torture of the buck that the 17-year-old had shot and wounded.
Messages were left for both defendants’ lawyers.
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