Overview
- Jackson County deputies arrested Mai Vang-Moua, 54, Maysy Moua, 59, and Kee Mouz, 33, on aggravated cruelty to animals in the shooting death of Bootsy.
- Jail records show no bond for the three, and the sheriff’s office says the case remains under active investigation.
- The Cox family says Bootsy slipped out of her pen, they heard a gunshot, and they then found neighbors in aprons and gloves beside the carcass and a pot of hot water.
- Investigators say the suspects told them they believed the pig was wild, a claim the family disputes, noting Bootsy wore a livestock ear tag.
- Bootsy was a 400-pound therapy pig who helped 12-year-old Garrett Cox in Future Farmers of America activities, and people nationwide have offered donations as his parents plan for him to raise a new pig by August.