Four people have been charged in connection to a dead longhorn being left on the front lawn of an Oklahoma State University fraternity house last month, according to Addison Kliewer of KOCO News 5.
Three 19-year-olds, Luke Ackerley, Andrew King and Brody Shelby, and 20-year-old Bennet Fady have been charged with unlawful disposal of a carcass—a criminal misdemeanor—for their involvement in the incident.
On Dec. 1 ahead of the Big 12 Championship game between Oklahoma State and the Texas Longhorns, the Stillwater Police Department responded to a call about a dead longhorn on the front lawn of the FarmHouse Fraternity.
Video of the incident obtained by police showed a pickup truck with a trailer carrying the longhorn pull up to the fraternity in the early morning hours on Dec. 1, according to court documents.
Three men wearing hoods exited the vehicle, got the longhorn off the trailer and placed it on the fraternity's front lawn while the other remained in the driver's seat.
The longhorn, which had a large cut in the abdomen, had been branded with the words "F--k FH," according to Colleen Wilson of Fox 25. A necropsy report determined the longhorn had died of a disease and that the four men had not killed it to place it on the fraternity's lawn.
Members of the FarmHouse Fraternity said they believed the longhorn was left by members of the Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity amid a prank war between the two, according to court documents.
Police then executed a search warrant of the Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity, and the four men were arrested before being released on their own recognizance.
All four men have pleaded not guilty.
