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This happened "just down the road" from me ... a couple dozen miles, and has been the subject of much local bar-and-coffee shop talk. Indeed, the shooters were city slickers. Due to an overabundance of deer hereabouts, its no problem to get plenty of deer tags; My wife and I both legally took more than one this year ourselves, in each of bow, gun, and black powder seasons, apart from two garnered out-of-season by vehicle hits (one hers, one mine). These boys is in big trouble, if the local buzz is any indication. It is the hunter's responsibility to verify his quarry before taking his shot, and they were too close to pavement, along with considerations of violating posted private property. I know the owner of the elk herd, and he's real perturbed. The Sheriff, an acquaintence and ex-neighbor of mine, ain't real pleased, either, though the final dithering is up to the champions of dithering, the Wisconsin DNR.

I'm curious. If they had 'several tags to fill' did they go out in the field to tag the 'deer' they shot? did they just drive away? or what?? All the hunters I know tag their animals - and if they just wounded it, would spend many hours tracking it to make sure it didn't suffer.

During gun deer I stopped at the White Birch ( on 64 the Dunn/ Chip co line ) for lunch. And reregister a deer. just happen to sit next to the owner of that farm.
These guys knew what they were shooting at. The one guy was even a Veterinarian.
He was being nice about it just asking to be paid for the loss. I guess they don’t want to pay up.