Owner Talks About Animal Slayings

Images like these are hard to forget a week later. This is what some of Darrell Beverly's horses looked like after two young men allegedly shot six of them to death.

“It was like losing one of the family, it just tore my insides, ripped me apart,” says Beverly. I caught up with Beverley over the phone today, 2/18/2010. He's a livestock dealer and hauler who used the horses for work and play.

“I've seen some really bad things done to animals and livestock but I've never seen nothing that could compare to what they've done to these horses, says Beverly. He says he still can't understand why anyone would kill his livestock

“The way they did it and they way they planned it, I don't have know sympathy for them whatsoever now,” says Beverly. No arrests have been made. The Greene County Sheriff’s office says they believe some teenagers are responsible for the crimes. The story is making headlines in Leakesville and a lot of people are shocked by the crime.

“Lord have mercy, I can't hardly say, they shoulda knowed better,” says Darrell Parnell. He lives a short distance from where the horses were killed in Leakesville. Darrell Beverly also owned two cows killed a week before the horses. He says the attacks cost him about $18,000 and a lot more emotionally.