{"id":517361,"date":"2026-06-25T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517361\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:39:13","slug":"video-shows-officer-catching-fawn-that-got-trapped-behind-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517361\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows officer catching fawn that got trapped behind fence"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a catch! Video shows officer catching fawn that got trapped behind a school’s fence<\/p>\n

\"KateROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n

A Pennsylvania police officer was able to nab a frightened fawn that had gotten trapped inside a fence after going over the side of a retaining wall outside of a Pittsburgh-area high school.<\/p>\n

See the moment in the video above<\/p>\n

Ross Township Police Department posted a video of the incident on its Facebook page<\/a> on Monday, showing the moment that Patrol Officer Nathan Roy caught the baby deer outside of North Hills High School.<\/p>\n

“Officer Roy showed the agility, sharp reflexes, and fearlessness of a FIFA World Cup Goaltender with this save!” the police department wrote in its social media post.<\/p>\n

Cheering could also be heard in the video after Roy made the catch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a catch! Video shows officer catching fawn that got trapped behind a school’s fence ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[220739,220740,9768,75610,220750,209853,209856,220747,136993,220738,220748,220749,61,60,220736,220742,220751,36618,220743,5610,163,220744,209851,220746,220737,220741,220745,82,209854,263,57534,209850],"class_list":["post-517361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-baby-deer","tag-caught-fawn","tag-deer","tag-deer-rescue","tag-deer-trapped","tag-demand-menu-subscribe","tag-email-weather-search","tag-facebook-video","tag-fawn","tag-fence","tag-fence-rescue","tag-frightened-fawn","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kmnd","tag-nathan-roy","tag-officer-catch","tag-page","tag-patrol-officer-nathan-roy","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-area-high-school","tag-privacy-notice-term","tag-retaining-wall","tag-ross-township","tag-ross-township-police","tag-school-fence","tag-science","tag-use-nextfre","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-rescue","tag-wjcl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}