THE LA Times Reported 1st: For years, the big trophy buck was a celebrity around Twin Falls, Idaho. As frisky and tame as a neighbor’s pooch, he grazed on flower patches and ate from local apple trees, often posing with his mammoth rack of horns for pictures taken by people who wanted a record of the so-called Rock Creek Monster.
But the popular deer appears to have met an untimely end: City prosecutors have charged a local hunter with stalking the animal, harvesting only a portion of its meat before cutting off its head and throwing the antlers into the Snake River.
Conservation Officer Jim Stirling said officials are not 100% sure the dead buck is the Rock Creek Monster, but that appears to be the case.
“Everything we hear makes us think it probably is, but we always err on the side of caution,” he said in a telephone interview. “That big buck featured in the papers was basically a community member.”
The community has responded with outrage. Continue reading at the LA Times – http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-idaho-deer-killing-20150722-story.html