A 27-point trophy buck that escaped from an Olmsted County deer farm in April was killed by a bow hunter last week on public land near Elba, state officials confirmed Tuesday.

The thickly antlered, nontypical whitetail was still carrying an identification tag in its ear and the Board of Animal Health confirmed it was the same buck reported missing in April by a producer of trophy deer. The animal escaped through a storm-damaged fence, a Department of Natural Resources official said, adding that other escapees were recovered within 72 hours.

Captive deer herds have been linked by state wildlife officials to three of Minnesota’s four outbreaks of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild deer. The 27-pointer was kept by the hunter who shot it, but the Board of Animal Health was able to obtain…