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BY ANDREW KNITTLE aknittle@opubco.com
CHOCTAW – Two teenage brothers are charged in a series of cow and horse shooting deaths in Choctaw.
The boys, whose names were not released due to their ages, killed at least nine animals between May and August, police said.
Police Chief Conny Clay said the boys recently moved to Shawnee from the Choctaw area.
They were arrested at their home Friday and booked into the Oklahoma County Juvenile Detention Facility.
Clay said he wasn’t sure whether the boys, ages 14 and 16, had made bail.
The boys face multiple criminal charges, including cruelty to animals, larceny of a domestic animal, possession of firearms with altered serial numbers and burglary.
Clay said the boys killed at least six cows in his jurisdiction, using a bow and arrow on at least one.
He said two dogs, a horse and “another cow, I believe,” were killed near the Choctaw area.
The teens also stole a horse from a Choctaw veterinary clinic and several firearms, Clay said.
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