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Brandon Eugene Gregory pleaded guilty in August to a felony charge of taking a wildlife resource without landowner consent, and was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in state jail.  In November 2008 Gregory jumped the fence at the Bear Creek Wildlife Park in West Houston and was charged by "Mr Buck" when he was about 15 feet away.  He said that after the deer pinned him to the ground with his antlers, he stabbed the animal with a knife. He later used the knife and a bone saw to sever the deer's head.  The head was later found in his freezer.  Gregory was gored in his thighs and buttocks.

Gregory's attorney argued that the young man should be placed on deferred adjudication to save him from a felony conviction that will void his license as an insurance adjuster, and noted that, except for knifing a penned deer, Gregory did something Texans do “hundreds of thousands of times every year. He killed a deer.”

Gregory hiked through several hundred yards of dense brush, cut through the park's chain-link fence, and then used a bolt cutter to get through the gate that enclosed Mr. Buck.  The deer had physical problems that kept wildlife managers from releasing him to the wild.  “Had Mr. Buck been healthy, Mr. Gregory would not have made it out of that pen alive.”