Man threatens to kill 24 horses
August 27, 2009
A Weld County, Colorado man who threatened to kill 24 horses is in jail today.
Trention Parker’s bail agent revoked his bail on an earlier felony charge Wednesday after Parker, 64, threatened to kill 24 horses to protest an upcoming jail sentence. Parker faced 90 days in jail for failure to clean up the property on which he lived.
The 64-year-old Parker invited others via flyers to help him kill each of the horses in “graphic and brutal ways on public property”, according to the Greeley Tribune.
Parker was arrested in a Weld County courtroom Wednesday after his bail was revoked.
Earlier Parker told the Tribune the first target among the horses would be a beautiful gray stallion, and that the first shot “will be the first shot of the second American Revolution.” The Tribune pointed to Parker’s actions as part of a growing national trend to resort to violence in protest of government actions.
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