Horse falls victim to second slashing attack
A Virginia Equus caballus wounded inward an laid upwards on at a pop children’s attraction belatedly inward Apr has been attacked again.
Lucinda’s latest injuries are non life-threatening, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
The laid upwards on is the tertiary such slashing incident inward the full general expanse of Frying Pan Park inward recent months.
Mystery surrounds the latest incident equally a youth arrested over the kickoff ii attacks remains inward custody.
Police said they responded to a written report of Lucinda beingness cutting over the weekend inward a paddock at 2625 Centreville Road.
Lucinda was previously attacked on Apr 26.
Detectives believe that the laid upwards on took house betwixt 8pm on Sat together with 10.30am on Sunday.
Police said the laid upwards on occurred at a belongings adjacent to Frying Pan Park.
Late inward June, a 17-year-old was arrested in connection amongst the previous ii attacks on horses together with farmyard animals at the park.
Police confirmed the youth was even thence beingness held inward a juvenile detention midpoint over the creature slashings that took house at Frying Pan Park on May 26 together with Apr 26.
The kickoff ii attacks involved horses used inward a riding program, together with farm animals used inward a children’s attraction.
The Herndon expanse man child arrested past times police faces 4 felony counts of maiming animals, iii misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals together with ii counts of unlawful entry.
Police expressed their gratitude to the community at the fourth dimension for helping to proceed the illustration active together with inward the populace eye.
The horses attacked on Apr 26 were used inward a programme for people amongst disabilities called the Spirit Open Equestrian Program. They suffered nasty cuts on their flanks, around of which required stitching.
The May 26 victims were ii goats – a nanny named Scandal together with an as-yet unnamed kid – a calf named Henry, together with a chicken. They alive at the Kidwell Barn at Frying Pan Park inward the Herndon area.
The injured calf was even thence beingness bottle fed at the fourth dimension of the attack, together with would accept approached anyone who came near, thinking he mightiness endure fed.
The Washington Post earlier reported to a greater extent than circumstances surrounding the alleged offending past times the youth after it accessed a search warrant used inward the constabulary investigation.
The paper reports that the teen had gone to the Equus caballus institution to cinema himself riding a horse, only was unseated together with became angry. The laid upwards on on the horses thence followed, constabulary allege.
It is alleged the youth was responsible for the subsequently laid upwards on on the farm animals.
Anyone amongst additional information to render or recalls seeing anything or anyone suspicious is asked to contact Crime Solvers past times telephone at 1-866-411-TIPS/8477, email at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or text TIP187.
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