Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, November 20, 1993 TAG: 9311220276
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV10 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Short
Sheriff Ken Phipps said the two 17-year-olds are from the Christiansburg area. Juvenile petitions will be obtained charging both with maliciously shooting livestock, which is a felony, and killing a companion animal, a misdemeanor.
Phipps said the same boys are under investigation for killing a cow in Floyd County.
The dog, a black Labrador, was found Nov. 8 on the side of Craigs Mountain Road in the Sugar Grove area with a piece of cord wrapped around its four legs, Phipps said. Investigators think the 2-year-old dog was shot in a nearby ravine and then left on the shoulder of the road.
The dog, which belonged to Tracie Taylor, was found a little less than a mile from its home. It had been shot in the shoulder.
One of the boys told an investigator they had planned to take the dog to its owner to tell them what happened but a car approached them and they left, Phipps said.
The dead cow, which belonged to Luther Nolley of the 3700 block of Nolley Road, was reported dead on Nov. 6. Nolley believes the cow was killed the previous night.
The cow was found near a creek with an arrow in its side.
Nolley Road is west of Sugar Grove, where the dog was killed.
by CNB