Show Horse's Slaughter Under Investigation

The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an animal cruelty case involving a show horse.

According to the agency, someone went onto the owner of the horse’s property overnight Saturday or early Sunday morning and killed the animal. The owner found her horse slaughtered Sunday morning.

When deputies responded to the victim’s Gillet Road home in Palmetto, they found the animal dead and “large portions of meat cut from it and missing,” an email from the agency to media stated. “The horse had been stolen in the night from its stall that’s attached to the home (the owner) was sleeping in.”

No further details are available at this time. The crime has been classified as a burglary of an occupied dwelling, grand theft and cruelty to an animal.

Anyone with information in the case is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 941-747-3011 or Crime Stoppers at 866-634-TIPS.

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