Oh deer! Break-in reported Friday in downtown Aurora

Here’s something that doesn’t happen every day. A subject being pursued by the Aurora Police Department broke into the back of a downtown business office early Friday morning and then, four seconds later, she broke out again, this time through the front door. 
The burglar was, in fact, one of two young does police officers were attempting to herd out of town when one took what she apparently mistook for a way of escape from a dead end alley on the west side of the square.
According to Aurora Police Chief Paul Graham, who responded along with another officer to the initial call about deer running loose in town, the chase was a wild few minutes. Graham said the call came in about 6:50 a.m. and, since he was just coming into work, he decided to assist the responding officer in the roundup.
Graham said he first saw the deer crossing 11th Street by the old Super Foods building and go between that building and the Post Office and into the alley. He said one of the does went into the dead-end alley behind the OT Potential office next to Heritage Bank, and a few seconds later it came out on the east side of the building.
At this point, Mitchell and Sarah Lyon, owners of OT Potential, take up the narrative. The young couple was drinking coffee in their upstairs living quarters at that hour when suddenly they were startled by a loud noise from downstairs.
“All of a sudden we heard this glass crashing,” Mitchell said. “The noise of the first crashing of glass sent us into a frenzy upstairs because we’re like, what’s happening downstairs?”
“And then we heard the second crash and I went to the window and I saw the deer running,” added Sarah. “I knew the deer had caused it but I couldn’t envision what had happened.”
Graham, who had witnessed the deer entering through a five-foot high window in the back of the building, was able to fill them in, but when they looked at the video from their Nest security camera, which is trained on the front door, they knew exactly what had happened.
In the video, which has been posted to the News-Register Twitter and Facebook pages, the sound of breaking glass can be heard, followed by the sound of galloping hooves and then, four seconds after the first crash, the doe is seen smashing headlong through the lower part of the office’s glass door and down the steps toward 12th Street.
Graham theorizes the animal saw the reflection of sky and trees in the rear window of the Lyon’s office and thought it was a way to escape from the pursuing officers.
According to Graham, the deer apparently joined its companion at some point and the pair headed east, exiting the city limits through the trailer park on the east end of town.