A Tennessean family has been left devastated after the beloved horse they raised from birth was mysteriously killed execution-style as she grazed on their farm.
Misty Blue was discovered dead, with just one bullet to her head, on Tuesday morning at her owners’ 100-acre farm in Nashville.
The 1,200lb Tennessee Walking horse, who was 17-years-old, belonged to Devinder Sandhu and his wife Susan Eslick.
A prominent family in the community, who co-founded and partially own the Nashville Metros soccer team, are now worried the murder may have been a hate crime because Sandhu wears a turban.
Eslick said her 61-year-old husband, a practicing Sikh, has been subject to abuse since the September 11 attacks because they think he’s Muslim.
‘They tell him, “Go back to where you came from,'” Eslick told The Tennessean. ‘But my husband has been a vibrant part of the Nashville community. He graduated from Vanderbilt University.’
Misty Blue was discovered dead on Tuesday, when a man who delivers grain to Sandhu’s farm came upon the poor horse’s body.
A preliminary investigation revealed Misty Blue was shot sometime between noon on Sunday and 8am on Tuesday.
The road closest to where Misty’s body was found is a private dead-end road, according to Metro Police spokesman Don Aaron.
The family said Misty Blue had a friendly personality and would have ‘greeted somebody who came up to the fence’, Sandhu told WTVF.
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