A deer is dead and a D.C. library is closed after the mammal burst through a glass window shortly before the branch was scheduled to open Tuesday afternoon.
<br/></div> <p>Officials shuttered the Washington Highlands Interim Library, located at 4037 South Capitol St. SW, for the day shortly after a deer slammed into a window.</p> <p>“It actually jumped through the window,” library spokesman George Williams told <i>The Washington Examiner</i>.</p> <p>Williams later confirmed that animal control officers euthanized the deer after determining it had a broken jaw.</p> <p>Williams said library officials were uncertain when the branch would reopen. The library system, he said, will need to install a new window and fumigate the facility.</p> <p>Although a spokesman for the D.C. Fire and EMS Department said one female library employee was injured, Williams said nobody was hurt in the incident.</p> <p>The library had been scheduled to open at 1 p.m.</p>
