Drizzt
January 10, 2003, 05:10 PM
Man charged with shooting deer from limo window
The Associated Press
Jan 10, 2003 : 2:35 pm ET
LINCOLNTON, N.C. -- A Lincoln County man has been charged in the drive-by shooting of a deer from a limousine in which he was taken taking his children to school.
Michael Paul Rife, 26, of Denver, N.C., stopped the limo, rolled down his window and shot the 6-month-old deer Dec. 20, leaving it behind until he dropped off his daughter, authorities said.
He returned later with his son to retrieve the animal.
Before he got there, several witnesses reported the shooting to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department.
"Imagine getting reports of shots being fired out of a black limo on Amity Church Road," Assistant District Attorney Kay Killian said. "You would have thought the Mafia had come to Lincoln County."
According to Allen Carlisle, an N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission agent, Rife stopped the limo, rolled down the window and shot the deer.
Emmitt Poole, the owner of the land where the deer was shot, said the father was wearing camouflage with an orange toboggan and the boy had on an orange hunting vest when they returned.
Deputy Robert Milton, a bailiff on his way to court in Lincolnton, pulled up behind the limo and detained the two until Carlisle could arrive.
The deer had only been wounded by the shot and had to be killed.
Rife was charged with hunting an anterless deer out of season. He has a conviction in Union County for hunting without a license.
http://www.heraldsun.com/state/6-307939.html
The Associated Press
Jan 10, 2003 : 2:35 pm ET
LINCOLNTON, N.C. -- A Lincoln County man has been charged in the drive-by shooting of a deer from a limousine in which he was taken taking his children to school.
Michael Paul Rife, 26, of Denver, N.C., stopped the limo, rolled down his window and shot the 6-month-old deer Dec. 20, leaving it behind until he dropped off his daughter, authorities said.
He returned later with his son to retrieve the animal.
Before he got there, several witnesses reported the shooting to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department.
"Imagine getting reports of shots being fired out of a black limo on Amity Church Road," Assistant District Attorney Kay Killian said. "You would have thought the Mafia had come to Lincoln County."
According to Allen Carlisle, an N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission agent, Rife stopped the limo, rolled down the window and shot the deer.
Emmitt Poole, the owner of the land where the deer was shot, said the father was wearing camouflage with an orange toboggan and the boy had on an orange hunting vest when they returned.
Deputy Robert Milton, a bailiff on his way to court in Lincolnton, pulled up behind the limo and detained the two until Carlisle could arrive.
The deer had only been wounded by the shot and had to be killed.
Rife was charged with hunting an anterless deer out of season. He has a conviction in Union County for hunting without a license.
http://www.heraldsun.com/state/6-307939.html