'Act Of Evil': 15 Horses Were Shot After Being Hunted In Rural Kentucky. Graphic image.

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Fifteen horses were shot and killed in the woods of Eastern Kentucky in what authorities call a cruel and inhumane crime that they're now working to unravel. Local authorities are offering a $1,500 reward — an amount boosted by donations from people who want the killer brought to justice.

The horses were found in the area of a rehabilitated strip mine near Floyd County's border with neighboring Pike County. For years, locals say, 30 or more horses have roamed the rough and isolated terrain there. But that changed horribly this week.

"It looked like a battlefield for just horses — we counted 15 that we found dead. All 15 appeared to us to have been shot," Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt told local TV station WYMT.

"This is very inhumane," Hunt says, "and it's a very cruel act of somebody who just apparently had nothing else to do or whatever, just to go back on a strip job and shoot down horses who were — one of them obviously was feeding, had grass in its mouth."

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/18/789369656/act-of-evil-15-horses-were-shot-after-being-hunted-in-rural-kentucky?utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR1jPjk3OtpW5DFU4u4fsXqilKFKalYm0mHCaP2b4qYZQ8DU4861a3qoCFQ

[raccoon]

1. Somebody's killing horses in South Carolina too.

Somebody’s killing horses in South Carolina too.I hope they catch whoever is doing this.

[Demovictory9]

2. sick.

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3. WTF? Senseless.