POCATELLO - A Pocatello man has been cited for killing a pregnant mule deer out of season after another man used his cell phone to take photos and then reported the incident to authorities.

Blake March, 26, of Pocatello, is scheduled to be arraigned April 11 in 6th District Court. He was cited Wednesday.

Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials allege that March illegally shot a pregnant mule deer on Sunday that was feeding south of Pocatello in a field owned by Larry Bull.

On that day, Kyle Hall, 22, was driving his parents home for Easter dinner when he saw a truck slowly moving along the road with its passenger door open.

Hall said he looked in the field and saw a man kneeling on the other side of a fence pointing a gun toward a deer.

"I could see the deer," Hall told the Idaho State Journal. "It's head was still up at that point. It hadn't completely dropped."

Hall confronted the driver.

"I kept asking them what they were doing, and he said, 'Nothing.' And I said, 'No, you shot that deer,'" Hall said.

Hall then put his cell phone in camera mode and photographed the three men and the license plate of the truck.

"(The alleged shooter) got his gun from where he laid it down, and I got a picture of him stepping through the fence with his gun in hand," Hall said.

An hour after the truck drove away, Hall met with Steve Anderson, a conservation officer with Fish and Game. Hall said they found shell casings and a blood trail, and then the doe about 50 yards away from where it was likely shot.

Later that evening, Hall e-mailed Anderson photos from his camera phone.

"The deer this time of year after the winter, they're down in these fields, and it's starting to be just a little bit of green, and these deer are really vulnerable," Anderson said. "It's hard to understand when this type of violation happens."

The area draws deer that are looking for food. Bull said Fish and Game officials and local sportsman's groups have offered to help him plant vegetation to block views of the field where the deer congregate.

"They're so visible right here from the road," Bull said. "It will just stop a little bit of the guy driving by and just shooting from the window of his truck. It will also help feed the deer a little more."