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x sa szv flr4 i 4 fearing for thesafety of the remaining 22 horses horse trainer robert krcmarshipped them to undisclosed locations across yorkregion z its heenynoreihan a year since four horses were shot ink whitchufchstouffisimbarn v- v by joan ransberry v v staff writer fyrtisindeedan unsolved mystery i why would anyone gun dowrftwo i horsesoy to return a month later and shoot two more eighteen months ago marked a difficult time for york regions horse community but for horse trainer robert krcmar it was devastat- i i i couldnt imagine going through any- thing like it again krcmar said r r t- the 34year old made the first gruesome discovery in late december 1998 the rribfn- v ing started like any other at greenwinds farms of bloomington near hwy 48 in stouffville where krcmar tended to 26 horses entering the barn for a rhorhingritual of feeding and i watering krcmar spotted guiness nrst it vtft detbave trachofyork was a horrify- v j va z threeyearold h gelding was alive but in bad shape the horse had taken o k ill at to the face rlhefi6reetrainotpfea yuatehbmioiiahoto hewas bederedand mosof all he was since saf1 tnhn rra shft nfivftr sad krcmar kriewthe shooting would devas tawfciuiness owner jason morrisa 10year when zerajic learned his horse was bleeding from a gunshot wound he reacted- with intense angera horse lover his entire life zerajic couldnt comprehend why any v one would commit such a brutal act- both horses wererushed to an animal hospital at jthe university of guelph where a medical team determined the injuries were too grave to savetfieir lives guiness and chance were put to sleep but not before debbie robinson drove her son to guelphto say goodbye to guiness tragedy struck again toughing canadas cruelty to animal laws may help but first you have to catch the bastard zerajic said i still think sooner or later something will happen and an arrest will be made i this is the 21st century and animals must be respected zerajic god gave us a brain to think it is not there to be cruel a month after chance and guiness died tragedy struck again krcmar walked into the barn only to find lucy a nineyear old grey are had been shot to death a closer examination showed lucy had a bullet lodged in her head blood was every- where five stalls away krcmar found mr chips a fiveyear old bay gelding he was alive but bleeding profusely from the nose and head of the four injured horses only mr chipssurvivecl v v- v lucy belonged to a markham teenager she loved riding and she especially loved said john crarifield shell never ride again she can just barelytalkabout it not a day goes by thatcrahfield doesnt mink about the day lucy was shot in cold blood r v i envision the gun pointing at her i envi- sion her lying there bleeding todeath we have to make sure this never happens ii cmaf ran to tiie telephone arid called a cranfield i said 7 v j j lyibutitwastoolate jason morris has resumed ridmg and has ariewhorserhoweverrnpmingwillevei north york boy he asked himselfp who would shoot a kids horse i close by wascharice the stallion v owned by schbmberg veterinarian qr dprri zerajic had also been shot in the face 911 replace his guiness you have to carry on i lost guiness and i lost a lot of money there was no insurance he said the shootings shocked the local horse community a reward valued at 50000 was established but u was never claimed wed hoped that it would make someone talk cranfield said at the time of the shootings york regional police reached out to the public to 1 help solve the crime the case attracted i many calls allowing detectives to speak with about 50 people we thought we had a suspect but it did- nt pan out det gary mcbrien said with two shootirigs back to back people worried a horsehating madman was on the loose y but police believed itovasnt a random act hunches arent enough it was isolated and it was the same shooter in both cases mcbrien said itwill likely never happen again while mcbrien insists the case is far from closed krcmardoesnt think police put a highprioriry on the killings y if it was a person i think the police response voiild have been different they would have used every resource available krcmar said l but mcbrien argues the investigation was y thorough arid its still goingoh i am avail- able to talk to anyone about it i the police might have a hunch that pointstb a particular suspect but hunches j arenfenoughtmcbriensaid this case isstill bbehr but there is no activity atthis time its a mystery im opti- misric that an arrest will be made everyone has one of these on the books ivebeena police officer for 28 years id liketo see this orie cleared upl somebody out there knows something id like tothink their conscience would get to them r meanwhilekrcmar believes the police know who shot the horses but dont have enough evidence to make an arrest a day afterthe second shootingl krcmar moved the horsesjounspecifiedlocations out of concemfdr theirsafety5 the killings 1 tore out ji krcmars hearti f forcing him to i avoid his lifes i work for the t next year z i couldntlhl just didnt wantii to be around sj them its better j now krcmar y 1 said r greenwindsf farms is up for sdewhile hbrse trainer jfrobect krcmar trains t r c ajv horsessome- krcmar w devastated r where else in york region i meanwmeth federal government is expected to pass a new law linked to cruelty to animals v currendyanyone convicted under ani- mal cruelty laws faces a majimtwoyear i prison term a 20006 arid possible pro- bation n c r under the newlaw anyone convicted could be jailed for five years be forced to t make a cash payment to a humane society face an additional fine and bebanned from ever owning an animal i but theres a catch tb tougher laws r krcmar said i vi v cti it doesnt matter hows law reads if you dont enforce it and cdmeup wimriminal charges itsuseless y v- v s in the meantime mcbriens horse-shoot- ing fileis open v- i the trouble is the witnesses were horses and die victims 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