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Somebody shot up to two dozen horses and dumped their bodies in a hay field about a mile west of Lodge Grass on the Crow Indian Reservation, and authorities are investigating.
Residents looking for their missing horses recently found the dead animals, The Billings Gazette reports.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ot-dead-beheaded-mont-field-article-1.2117291Law enforcement officers from several agencies along with officials from the state Livestock Department investigated the deaths on Feb. 11. Some of the horses’ heads were cut off.
There were several tire tracks along an irrigation ditch where four more animals were found. Pease-Takes Horse said officers collected the horse heads as evidence.
If wasn’t clear Friday if anyone would be charged with killing the animals. Big Horn County Attorney Jay Harris said Friday that he hadn’t seen a report of killings and Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement did not return phone calls from the newspaper on Friday. The BIA office in Billings was closed Monday because of the federal holiday.