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5th suspect pleads not guilty to slaughtering cow
By Laura Johnston
The Journal Gazette
ANGOLA – A 20-year-old Angola man is the latest to plead not guilty to killing a dairy cow and stealing its legs, supposedly for the meat.
Like the four other Steuben County suspects, Scott Michael Wooster of the 700 block of South County Road 600 West is charged with theft, a Class D felony punishable by six months to three years in prison, for the cow's death June 24. A 15-year-old Hamilton juvenile has also been charged, and police are still searching for one man.
Wooster, who appeared in court Friday, turned himself in Thursday evening and was released Friday afternoon from the Steuben County Jail on $5,000 bond.
Wooster, Matthew Shaffer, Jeremy Maguire and Perry Dominguez are accused of slaughtering the Holstein, dismembering it and eating its legs. The cow, named Ellen, was kept in a Steuben County pasture owned by Terry Penick and was worth about $7,000.
When Penick discovered the cow on the morning of June 24, it was missing its legs, a probable affidavit said. Its throat had been cut from ear to ear, its esophagus appeared to have been removed, and it had stab wounds over its body and a hole in its head.
The gruesome story has been the talk of the Steuben County Courthouse this week.
Affidavits – virtually the same for each suspect – say the six young men set off to kill a cow for meat.
A probable cause affidavit filed in Dominguez and Wooster's cases says Dominguez had been drinking all day June 23 before meeting up with five other men at a mobile home park to kill a cow.
Maguire knew that cows were kept at the farm because he formerly lived on the same street, an affidavit said. He and five others met at his house and decided "to get a cow" late Thursday.
The affidavit then gives this account:
The group went to a gas station to get something to drink, then piled into Shaffer's truck and drove to the farm. Maguire shot the cow in the barn with a bow and arrow, which prompted the cow to ram the men, and in the process the animal tore out a fence.
The men chased the cow, and another man shot it again with a bow and arrow. The cow then fell.
Maguire used a butcher kit to remove the cow's legs. Shaffer and Wooster loaded the cow parts onto Shaffer's truck.
The group then drove to Maguire's house and skinned the cow's legs, put them on ice and ate some of the meat.
In court Friday, Wooster said he did not graduate high school and was unemployed. Other than his car, a 1988 Chevrolet Camaro, he said he didn't own any property worth more than $100.
Magistrate Judge Randy Coffey appointed Wooster a public defender.
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5th suspect pleads not guilty to slaughtering cow
By Laura Johnston
The Journal Gazette
ANGOLA – A 20-year-old Angola man is the latest to plead not guilty to killing a dairy cow and stealing its legs, supposedly for the meat.
Like the four other Steuben County suspects, Scott Michael Wooster of the 700 block of South County Road 600 West is charged with theft, a Class D felony punishable by six months to three years in prison, for the cow's death June 24. A 15-year-old Hamilton juvenile has also been charged, and police are still searching for one man.
Wooster, who appeared in court Friday, turned himself in Thursday evening and was released Friday afternoon from the Steuben County Jail on $5,000 bond.
Wooster, Matthew Shaffer, Jeremy Maguire and Perry Dominguez are accused of slaughtering the Holstein, dismembering it and eating its legs. The cow, named Ellen, was kept in a Steuben County pasture owned by Terry Penick and was worth about $7,000.
When Penick discovered the cow on the morning of June 24, it was missing its legs, a probable affidavit said. Its throat had been cut from ear to ear, its esophagus appeared to have been removed, and it had stab wounds over its body and a hole in its head.
The gruesome story has been the talk of the Steuben County Courthouse this week.
Affidavits – virtually the same for each suspect – say the six young men set off to kill a cow for meat.
A probable cause affidavit filed in Dominguez and Wooster's cases says Dominguez had been drinking all day June 23 before meeting up with five other men at a mobile home park to kill a cow.
Maguire knew that cows were kept at the farm because he formerly lived on the same street, an affidavit said. He and five others met at his house and decided "to get a cow" late Thursday.
The affidavit then gives this account:
The group went to a gas station to get something to drink, then piled into Shaffer's truck and drove to the farm. Maguire shot the cow in the barn with a bow and arrow, which prompted the cow to ram the men, and in the process the animal tore out a fence.
The men chased the cow, and another man shot it again with a bow and arrow. The cow then fell.
Maguire used a butcher kit to remove the cow's legs. Shaffer and Wooster loaded the cow parts onto Shaffer's truck.
The group then drove to Maguire's house and skinned the cow's legs, put them on ice and ate some of the meat.
In court Friday, Wooster said he did not graduate high school and was unemployed. Other than his car, a 1988 Chevrolet Camaro, he said he didn't own any property worth more than $100.
Magistrate Judge Randy Coffey appointed Wooster a public defender.
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