Prize Winning Horse Shot to Death in Family's Backyard

Investigators are calling it a senseless crime. A prize winning horse was shot and killed behind a family's home over memorial day weekend.

Terri Gordon is known as "the Horse Whisperer." She has raised the animals all of her life. It's her passion. Now, she only has three left.

"This is wrong, that she had to suffer that level of pain," said Gordon, the owner.

Ambre, the horse she spent the past 25 years raising, was shot and killed at her home on Buth Drive in Comstock Park while she and her husband were out of town on Monday afternoon.

"She deserves so much more dignity than what somebody chose to do her," said Gordon.

Gordon says the horse was shot twice in the barn behind her home with a rifle.

"To kill a horse, a domesticated animal in the safety of their own stall is unfathomable, it's wrong," she said.

Her family's now struggling with the brutality of what happened and what could have happened if one of them was in the barn when the shots were fired.

Deputies scoured her five acres of property looking for shell casings but, so far, they came up empty.

Gordon says losing Ambre is the end of an era for her family. They won't be able to start a new chapter until they catch the person responsible.

"Anything, just anything that they saw, heard, gunshots, just to call police, contact silent observer," she pleaded.

Silent Observer is offering a 250 dollar reward for information. If you have any information about what happened, please give them a call.