Wow, sounds like a really messed-up situation! To me it sounds like the woman just really wanted to shoot that horse to spite her nephew and the cop felt he and his family were threatened and defended himself. I would have hated to have been put in the same situation. I don’t even know how to shoot, but I imagine if I’d been in his shoes and had a gun in my possession I would have at least tried to do the same thing, but I would have probably been the one who ended up dead. She just picked the wrong person to pull a gun on.
A big mess. I don’t blame the cop but I can kind of understand her anger too. How many horse people have threatened to kill a horse before? How many actually do? It doesn’t say but it wouldn’t surprise me if her gun was even loaded.