Four members of an Oklahoma State University fraternity have been arrested in connection with a longhorn carcass left in front of another fraternity last month.
Bennett Fady, Luke Ackerley, Brody Shelby and Andrew King were arrested Wednesday and charged with misdemeanor counts of unlawful removal/disposal of a corpse.
The dead Longhorn was found in the front yard of the Oklahoma State University Farmhouse fraternity on Dec. 1, the day before the Big 12 Championship football game between the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Texas Longhorns. won 49-21. .
The cow was branded with “F— FH.” The animal also had yellow tie-down straps wrapped around the base of its antlers and was secured to a large concrete post on the porch of the Farmhouse fraternity. The longhorn had a large gash on its abdomen, exposing its internal organs.
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Bennett Fady, Luke Ackerley, Brody Shelby and Andrew King were charged with misdemeanor charges of unlawful removal or disposal of a corpse. (Payne County Jail)
Stillwater police found from an autopsy report that the cow had died from an illness 36 hours before the incident and was not killed to be left on the farmhouse fraternity lawn.
According to Fox 4, members of Farmhouse Fraternity told police that they suspect rival fraternity Alpha Gamma Rho left the body in the middle of an ongoing prank war between the two fraternities. was revealed in an arrest warrant affidavit.
Police reviewed surveillance video from the Farmhouse fraternity and saw three people get into a white Ford F-150 with a trailer and dump the dead Longhorn on the property.
Investigators later learned that the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity was holding a party at the home of a member's uncle. Neighbors told investigators they normally see three longhorns on the property, but only two remained after the prank, according to court documents.
According to court documents, police visited Alpha Gamma Rho to interview fraternity members, and leaders and advisors identified the fraternity members involved in the incident but were unable to “provide identification for those individuals.” refused,” he said.
Investigators were informed that Fadi had discussed plans to drop dead longhorn beetles on the farmhouse grounds, but was urged by his fraternity friends not to carry out the prank, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. . The four arrested members later admitted to police that they had asked another member to borrow their truck to retrieve the cattle, and that the member had given Fadi permission to use the truck.
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An autopsy report determined that the longhorn had died from an illness 36 hours prior to the incident and was not killed for being left on the farmhouse fraternity lawn. (Stillwater Police)
Police say the four suspects did not immediately return the truck used in the incident to the owner after dumping the longhorn, parked it on the east side of the farm where the cows had been harvested, and told the owner where the vehicle was. He said he tried to cover it up. Police said the truck was driven to the owner's home in the middle of the night “at the suggestion of the fraternity to avoid detection,” according to Fox 25.
According to court documents, an examination of surveillance video taken from the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity house revealed large gaps in the surveillance video before and after the incident.
“There was a significant lack of cooperation from the Alpha Gamma Rho organization in connection with the investigation of this incident,” investigators said in court documents.
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Police attempted to interview the four suspects at police headquarters, but the lawyer told police that none of his clients would participate in the questioning.
The four people arrested are members of Alpha Gamma Rho. All four were booked into the Payne County Jail and released on their own recognizance, all pleading not guilty.
“Oklahoma State University expects all students to abide by the university's Code of Conduct, and appropriate action will be taken based on the results of the ongoing internal investigation,” the university said in a statement to Fox 4. mentioned in.
