BY SHERRY CONOHAN
Staff Writer
LITTLE SILVER — A deer that had been shot by an arrow was seen running through the borough last week.
Sue Russell, the policy director for The Center for Animal Protection, said the buck was sighted "with a very long arrow" protruding from its side on Lippincott Road, and a little later on the other side of Seven Bridges Road on Little Silver Point Road at Borden Place.
Russell, who lives in the Fox Hill development, said the deer was never found after it had been sighted with the arrow in its side. The sightings were called in to police, who, in turn, called her, she said.
She said she hoped he died in the bulrushes along the Shrewsbury River.
Russell thought the deer might be the same six-point buck she saw across the street from her house at 8 a.m. a couple of days earlier. She said she had never before seen a deer on her street.
"When he moved, it was like water," she said in admiration of the creature.
"I know what happens to urban deer and it’s not good, so I called police," she added.
Police Chief William Wikoff said he was familiar with the reports of the deer with an arrow in its side, but couldn’t confirm one had been in town.
"Officers went out there and couldn’t find it," he said.
Russell speculated the deer had found its way to Little Silver from wooded areas in the Locust section of Middletown via the Oceanic Bridge.
She said borough police couldn’t have been nicer, as they kept her updated on the whereabouts of the deer while she tried to find someone who could shoot it with a tranquilizer dart so that it could be captured and treated.
"It’s sad," Russell said. "He just disappeared."