Ambre (pictured left) and her fowl. Ambre's family and police are trying to figure out who shot and killed the horse on Memorial Day.
Posted on 05/28/2009 8:06:38 PM PDT by earlJam
Prize Winning Horse Shot to Death in Family's Backyard
Investigators are calling it a senseless crime. A prize winning horse was shot and killed behind a family's home over memorial day weekend.
Dan Krauth News Reporter
May 28, 2009
KENT COUNTY - Investigators are calling it a senseless crime. A prize winning horse was shot and killed behind a family's home over memorial day weekend.
Terri Gordon is known as "the Horse Whisperer." She has raised the animals all of her life. It's her passion. Now, she only has three left.
"This is wrong, that she had to suffer that level of pain," said Gordon, the owner.
Ambre, the horse she spent the past 25 years raising, was shot and killed at her home on Buth Drive in Comstock Park while she and her husband were out of town on Monday afternoon.
"She deserves so much more dignity than what somebody chose to do her," said Gordon.
Gordon says the horse was shot twice in the barn behind her home with a rifle.
"To kill a horse, a domesticated animal in the safety of their own stall is unfathomable, it's wrong," she said.
Her family's now struggling with the brutality of what happened and what could have happened if one of them was in the barn when the shots were fired.
Deputies scoured her five acres of property looking for shell casings but, so far, they came up empty.
Gordon says losing Ambre is the end of an era for her family. They won't be able to start a new chapter until they catch the person responsible.
"Anything, just anything that they saw, heard, gunshots, just to call police, contact silent observer," she pleaded.
Silent Observer is offering a 250 dollar reward for information. If you have any information about what happened, please give them a call.
Ambre (pictured left) and her fowl. Ambre's family and police are trying to figure out who shot and killed the horse on Memorial Day.
“fowl” = Foal, the infant offspring of a mare. I know. I wash my fingers, and I can’t do a THING with them, either.
I just copy and pasted.
This is very sad.
Terri retired last year after being the 4-H leader for Kent County for many, many years. Every year at fair, she would wake the kids up singing, “Rise and shine. Give God the glory, glory...”
Hated the song.
But everyone loved the woman.
Wrong time and wrong place for a joke.
My husband sings that to me sometimes. I used to sing it to my cabin kids at a Methodist Camp I counselled in many years ago.
Hey, show some sensitivity darnit!!
Only the French could be so crude while pretending to be so sophisticated. There is a long history in the Western tradition of not heating horse meat. But the French are perverse in many ways.
Sick.
A sad business. I hope they catch the perp.
Any one who could commit such a crime is less than human.
Wow, that’s sad and how pathetic to shoot a horse like that. I hope they find the perp and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
Sacre Bleu! Zee perverted savages eat it COOKED?
My wife had horse meat in China,said it was better than sushi..
What monster could kill such a beautiful animal? Prayers for the owners of Ambre. I pray they catch this ruthless killer.
Beautiful horse!
Do they have any idea who would do this?
I suspect a competitor?
They ought to shoot who did this to the horse.
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