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An enormous whitetail deer had become a local legend in rural New York. Then a picture of his carcass appeared on social media.
By Ed Shanahan
Early one morning, a picture of a dead deer in the back of a flatbed truck popped up in a group message on Snapchat. A half-hour later, someone else shared a picture of the same dead deer, a big buck with moose-like antlers.
This was not just any large whitetail, but a local legend whose size and majestic rack — a palmated crown shaped like two open hands with fingers extended — had earned him a nickname: King Louie. There was talk that he might one day qualify for a New York record.
