You may remember the letter I wrote to you last year regarding the “year-round deer hunter” that lives on Ebenezer Church Road.

Unlike most hunters, this one hunts at night; his style is to spotlight deer, shoot deer that are eating. If the path of the shot is a busy road, or a neighbor’s house, that doesn’t matter to him.

His game trophy is a 69-pound young buck — yes, he is a real hero in the world of game hunters.

After he was tried in traffic court and fined $200 for a crime that should have been much more, I wrote to the governor, the head of the Department of Natural Resources and the attorney general.

Someone heard me and his first trial was vacated and he went back to court on Feb. 25. The DNR ranger said the hunter told him he shot the deer from his front porch and toward the road. The ranger said if the bullet missed the deer, the shot would travel across Ebenezer Church Road and would have hit the Saul home.

The judge fined him $500, two years’ probation, his license was suspended for two years and he was put on a nationwide memo, so he can’t hunt anywhere in the United States. The judge told him he was to make no contact with me in any manner.

Pretty stiff sentence, right? I bet you think this “scared him straight”? Well, think again.

Wednesday at around 6 p.m., the same day he went to court, my phone rang and a neighbor called me to see if I heard the gunshots coming from his home at the same time Mr. Saul was in the backyard cutting firewood. He came in the back door and said that “blank of blank” is shooting again.

The neighbor said she was in the back yard, saw two deer go across the pasture toward the “hunter’s” house, and then five shots were fired. Mr. Saul said the “hunter” had fired a 30-caliber gun five times near the road. Most hunters know the deer season is over in December.

Long story short, the Sheriff’s Department was called, and the marshal’s office joined the visit to the neighbor’s house; they issued him a ticket and confiscated his gun.

Will this stop him? Probably about a 99.9 percent chance it won’t. He and his wife think all of this is my fault. He has no part in the things he does to break the law and put all the neighbors and innocent people driving down Ebenezer Church Road in danger of being shot with a high-powered rifle.

The gun laws in Fayette County say you must have 35 acres to hunt on with high-powered guns. This man rents a house on five acres, and the owner of the house has given him a written statement that he is not to shoot any type of guns on their property.

The only way this man is ever going to abide by the law is when he spends a few months in the local jail.

Just on the slim chance he can read, and happens to read this letter, I would like him to know all the neighbors are tired of being afraid to walk outside for fear of a stray bullet hitting them.

LeGay Saul

Fayette County, Ga.