A brown bunny from the wild was run over and killed early Monday morning in the Dunkin’ parking lot on Main Street (Route 25) in Gorham.

The bunny had reportedly developed a habit of hopping over to Dunkin’. Erich Tucker of Buxton, a Dunkin’ employee, described the deceased bunny to Westbrook-Gorham Now. Tucker said it was big and fat with small legs and “a dark brown” in color.

A customer, Heather Kay, Monday posted the incident on Facebook. Kay said that she saw the dead, wild bunny and added it had been hanging around the parking lot. It seemed weird to her that someone “accidentally” hit it in a parking lot.

The posting drew 36 comments as of Tuesday morning.

“I was at Dunkin’ around 8 a.m. and saw the poor thing dead in the middle of the parking lot,” Kay said when contacted.

The rabbit received bereavement Facebook postings and comments about the incident ranged from, “That’s terrible” to “So sad” to “horrible.”

One posting said they had visited the bunny several times. “I’m shocked. This rabbit was my new friend; Now it’s dead.”

Posts with belief the bunny was intentionally run over by someone included, “What a (expletive), seriously, I hope that person gets it right back.”

And another, “It’s evil that lurks in someone’s heart to do that.”

But Tucker, who documented the demise of the bunny with a photo and hadn’t seen the bunny previously, thought it was the victim of an accident.

One Gorham resident of several years posted that they had never even seen a rabbit in the town.

It’s unknown whether the rabbit was a New England cottontail that the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife lists as an endangered species.