LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A Las Vegas woman told 8 News Now she is trying to piece together what happened after she said her horse was brutally killed in the northwest valley.
“Our animals are like our kids,” Brianna Poindexter said.
She shared with 8 News Now everything she loved about her horse ‘Quincy.’
“She was gentle,” she recalled. “And she wouldn’t hurt anything.”
Poindexter said Quincy was gentle, kind, and a perfect companion for her young daughter.
She added that the two were inseparable for the year and a half they had her, but last week something unimaginable happened.
“It was just blood everywhere,” Poindexter said.
Poindexter said she came to feed Quincy lunch around 1 p.m. on December 13 at the northwest valley property where she boarded her, but she found her dead, her body mutilated.
-
A Las Vegas woman told 8 News Now she is trying to piece together what happened after she said her horse was brutally killed in the northwest valley. (Brianna Poindexter) -
A Las Vegas woman told 8 News Now she is trying to piece together what happened after she said her horse was brutally killed in the northwest valley. (Brianna Poindexter) -
A Las Vegas woman told 8 News Now she is trying to piece together what happened after she said her horse was brutally killed in the northwest valley. (Brianna Poindexter)
“It was the equivalent to me,” Poindexter explained. “If a psychopath went after a human being.”
She said she then called Clark County Animal Protection Services. The organization later looped in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
“Now they are taking pictures,” Poindexter recalled. “It’s an actual crime scene, it’s brutal. This is brutal.”
A report and statement 8 News Now obtained from both organizations cite preliminary investigations that showed Quincy was attacked and killed by one or two dogs.
Clark County Animal Protection Services provided the following statement:
“On December 13, 2024, Clark County Animal Protection Services responded to a call for a dead horse on a property. Preliminary investigation shows that the horse was attacked by one or more dogs, which resulted in the death of the animal. The investigation is ongoing.”
A portion of the LVMPD incident report also cited that a neighbor saw “two dogs messing with the horse in question” around 10:30 the same morning.
“No horse, no animal, as gruesome as her death was,” Poindexter said. “Deserved to die like that.”
She said she is still trying to wrap her head around what happened.
“I have all these happy memories with Quincy, all these happy memories,” Poindexter said. “To have that as the last memory of her.”
She told 8 News Now she hopes by sharing Quincy’s story she can find closure as her family does what it can to move forward.
“My whole thing is justice for her,” Poindexter concluded. “My daughter needs justice.”
In the incident report released by LVMPD, officers stated that while officers responded to the scene, Animal Protection Services will continue to look into the matter.
If you would like to help Poindexter and her family, click HERE.
