Doe adventure has unhappy ending in Campton Twp.

Unlike a deer that was rescued from a window well of a home near Barrington Thursday, a deer that got into the basement of a Campton Township home had to be destroyed.

The episode began at about 4:20 p.m. Wednesday at the home of Shawn and Bill Kruzan.

The couple had just returned from getting coffee in downtown St. Charles when they heard a loud crashing noise at the front of their home in the 4N500 block of Hidden Oaks Road.

A doe had fallen through a plastic bubble covering a five-foot deep window well, then kicked through the glass window leading into the basement, and was thrashing around a 10-foot by 10-foot mechanical room with shelves, two furnaces and a water softener.

“It was pretty crazy that’s for sure,” Shawn Kruzan said. “Thank God we were here. We heard all the crashing. We closed off the door and called 911.”

Kruzan said the doe was cut from the window and might have had a broken leg. It was frantically trying to get out, but the window well was too deep.

They debated whether to attempt to corral the doe and lead her out of the room and out the rear of their walkout basement, but decided it was too dangerous.

A Kane County Sheriff’s Deputy had to shoot the deer once in the chest and it was carried out on a tarp after the hourlong ordeal.

“She was just too crazed,” Kruzan said of the doe. “She was just trying to get out of that room, and in her haste she knocked down a steel shelf full of tiles and vases. There was blood everywhere.”

Kruzan said an insurance adjuster visited her home on Friday and was still compiling a damage estimate.