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OREM — A Utah family arrived home to find what looked like a crime scene this week: windows broken, belongings out of place and blood on the carpet. To their surprise, it wasn't a person who they expected to find breaking in, but a deer.
"It all just happened really fast," said Sam Gill, owner of the now slightly disheveled Orem home. "It broke that first window, just noticed there was blood on the carpet."
Gill said she couldn't believe it.
"We looked up and there was a deer about 10 feet away from us," she said. "Why is there a deer in my house?"
When animal control showed up at the home to investigate, the deer promptly left. Unfortunately, it crashed through another window to get out instead of taking the front door.
"We had left the door open, hoping it was just going to run out the door," Gill said. "But I guess I didn't see the door as a good option and went through the window."
Luckily, the Gill family was recording during that final moment of departure — collecting evidence of a bizarre encounter they had in their home. Sam Gill's husband, Colin Gill, began making sense of the situation in its aftermath.
"We've had deer that like to hang out underneath the front porch steps, so that's how it entered through the house," he said, pointing to a window adjacent to the porch. "I think we'll keep the deer in the yard and not in the house anymore."
Sam Gill said the family is unsure what happened to the deer afterward, and it was unclear to them what injuries the deer sustained.
"Poor thing, yeah," she said. "Hope that deer gets better and isn't hurt too bad."
