"Wal-Mart deer hunter"gets probation for buck shot from parking lot

(CBS) INDIANA, Pa. - In more news from the Keystone State...a western Pennsylvania hunter who shot a deer from a crowded Wal-Mart parking lot on the first day of hunting season last year will have his record cleared if he completes six months' probation without incident.

The buck stops here.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports 40-year-old Arcangelo Bianco Jr. was accepted into a first offenders' program by an Indiana County judge on Friday. The program doesn't require a guilty plea, though Bianco must also pay $1,080 in court costs and probation supervision fees and do 20 hours of community service.

An employee of the Wal-Mart in Burrell Township told police Bianco sped in his pickup and fired a handgun near the store's cargo loading area. Bianco then allegedly fired another shot as the deer ran across U.S. Route 22, and two more as the animal fell in a woman's yard.

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