Overview
- Police responding to a Jan. 18 burglar alarm at a Webster Bank in Ridge, Long Island found an adult buck that had smashed through a large glass window and become trapped.
- Department-released video shows the deer thrashing inside, leaping over desks and colliding with barriers as alarms blared, leaving shattered glass, scattered papers and visible blood on surfaces.
- Officers lassoed the deer by its antlers and directed it back through the broken window to the outside, with no injuries reported to officers or the public.
- Suffolk County Police credited Seventh Precinct Officers Connor Kehoe, Jason Famoso, Shane Matedero, Michael Pitts and Salvatore Zafonte for the rescue.
- The widely shared footage revived attention to past Long Island deer intrusions, including a 2019 salon crash that injured a customer and a recent multi-day rampage in Lake Ronkonkoma.