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Auburn Police Deputy Chief Jason Moen, left, stands by as an Auburn police officer takes aim at a loose cow at Maine Oxy in Auburn on Monday. The cow escaped from a trailer on nearby Minot Avenue before being corralled in a fenced-in area at Maine Oxy. The cow was shot at the owner's request after numerous attempts were made to get the cow back into the Harvest Hill Farms trailer. "Definitely not the way we wanted this to end, but we had no other choice," Moen said. "There was no other safe way to resolve this." The cow was being transported to a slaughterhouse. The white propane tanks in the background were not in the line of fire. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)