Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe July 21 (UPI) -- A North Carolina sheriff's deputy investigating a potential break-in at a taxidermy shop came face to face with the suspect: a deer "trying to free his friend." Keith and Denise Bowman, owners of Bowman's Wildlife Taxidermy in Walnut Cove, said they received a 3 a.m. phone call Sunday from a Stokes County sheriff's deputy. Advertisement "You have a deer in your building, you need to get over there and secure it," Denise Bowman recalled in an interview with WGHP-TV. "I said, 'Is this a joke?'" "The [deputy] said, 'There is a deer in here,'" Keith Bowman said. "I said, 'There's a lot of deer in here,' and she said, 'No, I mean a live one.'" A video recorded by a deputy inside the store shows the deer standing in a doorway after making a mess inside the business. "I watched this unfold. Come with me...there is a deer, he broke into the taxidermy trying to free his friend. Can't make this up," the deputy says in the video. The deer escaped uninjured, but not before causing about $2,500-$3,000 worth of damage. "Sometimes, I think, I need to write a book. It's just amazing at the events that take place," the couple wrote on the store's Facebook page. Advertisement Read More Dog swims into the Long Island Sound to rescue baby deer Deer browses wine aisle in Wisconsin grocery store Deer breaks through window for romp in Wisconsin university