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While a man was attacking a woman choking her with her purse straps and punching her in the forehead a deer darted in the darkness, startling the attacker and scaring him away, police said Monday.The deer jumped up and ran and so did he, said police spokesman Sgt. Jon Varley.
He cant recall a similar incident during his 17-year police career.
Varley thinks the deer was asleep for the night when the woman was leaving a party early Sunday and the commotion of the attack stirred the animal awake.
The woman said the man approached her and tried to choke her and drag her in the 500 block of Poplar Street, and told her to be quiet, Varley said.
The assailant didnt get away with any of her property.
The woman suffered red marks and bruises but didnt require medical treatment, Varley said.
No description of the attacker or the heroic deer was available.
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