Four members of an Oklahoma State University fraternity were arrested for leaving a dead longhorn marked outside a rival fraternity.
Bennett Fady, Luke Ackerley, Brody Shelby and Andrew King, members of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity, were charged with misdemeanor unlawful disposal of a corpse on Wednesday.
They have been accused of dumping the dead longhorn on Dec. 1 in front of Farmhouse Fraternity, with the words: “F–k FH’ written on the animal’s side and with its stomach cut open.
The morbid act was apparently part of a prank war between the two fraternities, court documents revealed, according to News on 6.
Surveillance footage allegedly shows three of the men tying straps around the porch pillar before a fourth drives away with a truck, removing the animal from the bed.
However, after gaining access to the video through a court order, police said a large portion of the footage was missing from around the time of the incident, according to the report.
Bennett Fady, Luke Ackerley, Brody Shelby and Andrew King were charged with misdemeanor unlawful disposal of a corpse on Wednesday. They were released on parole and pleaded not guilty. They have been accused of dumping a dead longhorn outside Farmhouse Fraternity with the words: ‘F–k FH’ written on the animal’s side and with its stomach cut open on December 1.
The children obtained the dead animal from a relative of another Alpha Gamma Rho member and borrowed someone’s truck to transport the longhorn, investigators said. According to News on 6, the owner of the vehicle did not know what the college students were planning to do.
OSU said at the time that it was “horrified by the disturbing display of animal cruelty.”
Farmhouse Fraternity issued a statement after discovering the animal, saying it was “disgusted and shocked” to find the dead animal and insisted that none of its members were involved.
The children obtained the dead animal from a family member of another Alpha Gamma Rho and borrowed someone’s truck to transport the longhorn, investigators said. Kennedy Thomason / O’Colly Police determined through a necropsy report that the cow had died approximately 36 hours before being found and that she had died of natural causes before reaching the children. Kennedy Thomason/The O’Colly
The animal abandonment took place just before the Big 12 football championship against the Texas Longhorns. Members of the fraternity told Stillwater police they believed their rivals had abandoned them as part of an ongoing prank war, according to WFAA.
A necropsy found that the cow had died approximately 36 hours before it was found, and had died of natural causes before reaching the children’s hands, police said.
The suspects were booked into the Payne County Jail.
They were released on parole and pleaded not guilty.
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