Brazos County Calf Mutilation Report (April 2023)
This archive contains a Brazos County Sheriff's Office incident report documenting a reported cattle mutilation investigation in Brazos County, Texas.
Recorded under case number SO230002173, the incident took place on April 24, 2023 near FM 974.
The responding deputy's narrative describes a calf found deceased with tissue missing from the facial area, including the tongue and one eye, and damage near the anus.
No obvious gunshot wound was identified during the deputy's examination of the carcass at the scene.
The livestock owner agreed to submit the carcass to Texas A&M University for a necropsy to determine the cause of death.
Together the records offer a contemporaneous law-enforcement account of the reported incident and the observations made on scene.
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