Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

SUNDAY, NOV. 1

11:32 a.m. Police were called to the area near Strawberry Hill Park in response to gunshots.

They found a 70-year-old Bainbridge Island man in a white pickup, backing out of the nearby property, the Filipino Hall. He said he had been firing a gun, that he’d been shooting at a coyote, but missed.

A second man appeared, the property owner. Then, a second police officer arrived and saw blood on the ground, saying he believed there was a deer in the back of the man’s truck. Deer season having ended the day before, his having shot a deer that day would be illegal.

The man removed the tarp from the back of his truck to reveal a deer, and apologized for lying about having been shooting at a coyote. He told police he’d been hunting there the day before, with the property owner’s permission, and had shot the deer then, though it got away.

The man said the property owner then called him earlier that day to report the buck was back. The hunter said he was concerned about leaving the deer wounded, so he returned to kill it.

A state Fish & Wildlife agent was called to the scene, and upon arrival took over the investigation while Bainbridge officers remained on the scene as security.

A report was forwarded to the county prosecutor’s office for charging.