Fayette County authorities have arrested a 17-year-old and charged him in the arrow attack of a horse.
Jeremy Ryan Richardson has been charged with Aggravated Cruelty to Animals, a felony.
OnJanuary 3rd, someone found eight-year-old Misty with four arrows in herbody. It took a veterinarian four hours to remove the arrows in herface, neck, shoulder, and spine.
The horse’s owner, Nancy Padovano, tells WSB she’s thrilled that someone has been caught.
“Ihope that the justice system, the court system, and the jury when he istried, throw the book at him. You know how the old saying goes – don’tput him in jail, put him under the jail – I just wish that he sufferslike my horse suffered,” said Padovano.
Richardson was also charged with several misdemeanors not related to the incident.
Hehas been charged with six counts of Failure to Record Deer Harvest whenhe unlawfully killed deer and failed to report them to the GeorgiaDepartment of Natural Resources, six counts of Unlawful Possession ofor Use of Wildlife when he illegally possessed deer that had not beenreported to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, one count ofHunting Deer at night when he shot and killed a deer on West Kelly LakeDrive, and one count of Hunting Deer over bait when he killed a deerusing the assistance of a deer feeder.