Horse shot, disemboweled and mutilated
Meridian, ID (US)Incident Date: Friday, Apr 14, 2006
County: Ada
Disposition: Open
Suspect(s) Unknown - We need your help!
Case Updates: 2 update(s) available
Meridian police are trying to find out who may behind a gruesome animal cruelty case.
Meridian stable owner Debbie Ringline awoke to neighbors telling her that one of her horses was lying on the ground, when Ringline checked it out, what she found was a horrific sight. The horse had been shot, disemboweled, and mutilated.
"The neighbors come by they say they like the horses they pet them they feed them carrots," said Ringline.
But someone came by Debbie Ringline's stable in the middle of the night and did much more than that. A blue tarp covers the remains of a horse that was brutally slaughtered
"I found her lying there with a big hole in her head her insides were pulled out through her behind and they were spread around," said Ringline.
Eight other horses on the property were covered in motor oil. Ringline suspects at least one of them may have also been traumatized, and the gruesome scene has her understandably shaken.
"This is huge," said Ringline. "We've got people running around in Meridian with guns, and to shoot a horse and do what they did, I wouldn't want people like that in my neighborhood."
Case UpdatesMore than $8,500 in reward money is being offered for information that leads to the capture of those who killed and mutilated a horse in Meridian on April 14.
The palomino yearling named Karen was shot in the head and her entrails spread out in a pasture in southwestern Idaho.
On Friday, Glen Black and AmeriTel Inns Inc., offered $5,000.
On Wednesday the Idaho Humane Society offered $2,500.
A Wells Fargo Bank spokesman says about $1,160 has been donated in increments from $5 to $500 through the bank.
Officials say the animal abuse case is one of the more gruesome they've seen. | Source: Times-News - April 21, 2007
Update posted on Apr 22, 2007 - 1:43PM |
Two local DJ's are so appalled by a local case of animal cruelty - they've set up a reward fund to help catch the perpetrator's.
Kevin and Brenda Mee, of Kissin' 92, can't believe someone would shoot a horse in the head, then mutilate and disembowel the animal.
The crime was discovered on Saturday - at a stable located in the heart of Meridian, just off Main Street.
Killing another person's livestock in Idaho is a felony - and police are searching for a suspect.
The Mee's hope by creating a reward, it will help bring witnesses forward in this gruesome crime.
To contribute to the reward fund visit any Treasure Valley Wells Fargo Bank.
Donations can be made out to the Kissin' 92 Crimestoppers Account. | Source: KTRV - April 16, 2007
Update posted on Apr 17, 2007 - 12:19AM |
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