$2,500 Reward Offered for Wisconsin Shooter

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In most cases, they didn’t hear any shots fired. In others, it was several days before the owners of a horse and a number of cattle had been shot at.

It all started when the Dunn County Sheriff’s Department received three different reports of horses that were shot and killed on Sunday, Nov. 29, between 3 and 5 a.m. in an area near Prairie Farm.

According to Rhonda Abbuehl, she and her roommate were awakened by a gunshot. It was later discovered that her 9-year-old horse “Rex” was wounded in the rear quarter after someone apparently shot him from the road near her home on 1450th Avenue in the Town of Sheridan. Although his wounds were treated, Rex died Monday morning.

Nearby, fellow Sheridan resident Denise Stuber found her horse dead from a gunshot wound in its front quarter. And in a field just a few miles away on County Road V in the Town of New Haven, Rose Ellsworth reported that a horse in her care was shot in the head and killed.

On Friday morning, Capt. Mike Tietz of the Dunn County Sheriff’s Department said that although the investigation was progressing, no arrests were imminent.

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) announced on Friday afternoon that it is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information “leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible” for the shootings.

“These helpless animals were shot to death, and the killer needs to be held accountable,” said HSUS’ Wisconsin State Director Alyson Bodai. “This kind of intentional cruelty to animals is unacceptable to the people of Wisconsin, and those responsible for these senseless deaths need to face a stern penalty.”

The perpetrator(s) would be charged with felony animal cruelty and if convicted, could face more than three years in prison.

I believe the shootings span over three counties now.

Only three years??? You know what this reminds me of? The Washington D.C. sniper. You know what he got? Death penalty. I'm not saying we need to go that extreme, but we need to be a heckuva lot harder than this. Whoever's shooting these animals could easily turn to choosing children as his targets next.