Man gets 100 days in jail for shooting antelope

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Jun 21, 2008 at 12:11 AM MDT

Story Updated: Jun 21, 2008 at 12:11 AM MDT

CHEYENNE, WYOMING - A magistrate in Sweetwater County has sentenced a Tennessee man to serve 100 days in jail and pay $6,000 in fines and restitution for shooting a doe antelope several times with a semiautomatic rifle.

Magistrate Stephen K. Palmer sentenced Tori Stephen Bowman, 23, of Cookeville, Tenn., on Monday. Rock Springs Game Warden David Hays says the fawn antelope was lactating when it was killed on Sunday. Hays says it probably left a pair of orphaned fawns behind.

Hays says wanton killing of wildlife is an increasing problem in southwestern Wyoming. He says that many cases involve young men who come into the area to work in the energy industry from places where they don't typically see so much wildlife.

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