SYRACUSE, Utah – The shooting deaths of four thoroughbred horses in Utah are prompting outrage and a $5,000 reward for the prosecution of those responsible.
Richard Sanders of Sunset said he returned home from a trip Tuesday to learn the horses were killed in their corral in nearby Syracuse, 25 miles north of Salt Lake City. The corral is in a remote location at the end of a road.
The horses he loved and cared for over the last decade were shot sometime between July 12 and Tuesday night, he said. They were the only horses he owned.
“Three of them were laying side by side,” Sanders told the Standard-Examiner of Ogden. “The oldest mare, she had jumped into the feed barrel trying to get away, and they shot her in the back.”
“I hope when they catch these people, I’m the first one to get at them,” he added.