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"According to a Boulder police news release, the officer was on routine patrol around 11 p.m. Tuesday when he said he saw the elk and believed it was injured. He said the elk was limping and that some of the elk's antlers had been broken off and judged the animal had to be put down, according to police.

The elk was in a yard when the officer shot and killed it with one shot from a shotgun.

The officer did not inform dispatchers he intended to shoot the animal and did not file a report about the incident."

Looking at the picture of the officer with the elk, I can't see a broken antler..... Cop could loose his job.