At least 15 horse have been shot and killed at a strip mine in eastern Kentucky.
The dead horses were found not far from the Floyd/Pike county line, near Prestonsburg. A $2,000 reward is being offered for information on the shootings.
Tonya Conn, with animal rescue group, Dumas Rescue, said the dead horses were scattered over a large area and it appears they were hunted.
“Seeing them gunned down is … beyond horrific,” Conn said on the Dumas Rescue Facebook page.
Authorities said some of the horses were young while others were pregnant.
“This is very inhumane 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,” Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt said in a statement to media outlets. “It looked like a battlefield for just horses.”
Hunt said the person responsible will face animal cruelty charges at a minimum.
(Photo courtesy of WKRC.com)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
