Neighbors in one Beaver County community are devastated by the killing of a beloved deer.
People in Economy Borough are in mourning over the killing of Ginger the deer.
Resident Chip Deutsch, tells KDKA Radio after Ginger was born, her mother was killed by a car.
“One of the neighbors founder her, she was on the verge of death” said Deutsch. “(The neighbor) and her son took her in and bottle-fed her and raised her.”
The plan was to release Ginger into the wild, but the problem was she was slightly domesticated.
After that, Ginger became somewhat of a neighborhood pet.
“She was pretty attached to people and she loved dogs,” said Deutsch. “She sort of adopted my dad, who lives a few houses down from where they found her.
Deutsch says she wanted to be petted and would walk along with people down the street.
After about five years of having Ginger around, a new neighbor reportedly shot Ginger with a bow and arrow.
Deutsch says the new neighbor appeared to have an issue with Ginger and shot her with a crossbow. He adds that Ginger died the morning after being hit “with her babies by her side.”
No charges have been filed and it is believed that Ginger was shot legally.
Deutsch said the community knew there was a chance every year that a hunter my harvest Ginger, but he doesn’t’ like the way it ended for her, believing that Ginger was targeted.
He also didn’t know how popular Ginger was in the community until he posted about her death on Facebook.
“My intention was to just simply inform the neighbors that Ginger was gone . . . I did not realize that Ginger had touched so many people, on so many levels, on so many streets,” said Deutsch.
Deutsch says he just wants people to know that Ginger brought smiles to many people in the community even though “she was a pain in the ass, everywhere you were, she was . . . but she was a good pain in the ass.”