Michael Craig Vaughan

Michael Craig Vaughan helped to rescue SueLynn Panter from an attacking deer, Franklin, Idaho, September 30, 2011. Panter, 44, was jogging on a rural road when a 175-pound, three-point, mule deer started to follow her. She tried to scare it off, but it approached closer and then attacked her, taking her to the ground and pushing her into an adjacent cornfield. Over the course of several minutes, the deer mauled her, inflicting puncture wounds with its antlers. She screamed for help. Vaughan, 38, electrician, and his teenaged daughter came upon the scene in their automobile, saw the attack, and stopped. Reaching Panter first, Vaughan’s daughter kicked and punched the deer, but to no effect. Vaughan then responded, grasped the deer by its antlers, and pulled it away from Panter, freeing her. The deer then turned on Vaughan, taking him to the ground and mauling him. His daughter obtained a hammer from the car and struck the deer repeatedly about its head and neck. It retreated and left the scene. She then aided Vaughan to the car and drove him and Panter to the hospital, where both were treated for puncture wounds that required suturing. They recovered.