Deer roams Jamaica Plain until it winds up in a backyard, where it is captured

UPDATE: Deer found healthy enough to be released, which it was, in a location that was not the Arboretum or Franklin Park, at the direction of state Environmental Police.

A young deer's explorations of Jamaica Plain came to an end this evening in a backyard on Jess Street, a dead end behind the Brewery complex where two Boston Animal Control workers captured it, a couple hours after firefighters had spotted it, possibly injured, on Boylston Street at Amory.

Animal Control Director Amanda Kennedy said the deer, a young male, will observed for a while. If it's well enough, it will be released in a location better suited for deer. But if the injury is too serious, it might have to be euthanized, she said.

Around 5:30 p.m., the deer, which had been spotted around JP for the past few days, ran through a Brewery parking lot before jumping through a fence and down onto Jess, where it ran across the street and jumped across two low fences to get into the yard.

Residents said this was the first deer they'd ever seen on the street; one did say a wild turkey once chased her daughter down the street.

In the yard, it mostly rested, supervised by an E-13 bicycle cop, a plucky reporter and his intrepid daughter, some residents and a couple of cats, one of which found the sight most curious:

Around 7:20 p.m., Kennedy and an animal-control worker arrived. They used a lasso-like device and ties to gradually bring the deer to the ground. It struggled all the while and bleated in protest.

Once on the ground, Kennedy held the deer down while her worker retrieved a stretcher from his truck.

Once they got it in a cage in the back of the animal-control truck, they removed the restraints and struggled to lock the cage. Kennedy took a moment to get her wind, then explained to the neighbors what would happen to the deer.

The fence between the Brewery and Jess Street the deer came through: