Llama Owners: They Cut Her in Half
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UNION COUNTY, NC — A Monroe family wants mental help for the men who mutilated a llama on their farm.
James Lee, Cody Bray and Alex Clark are all in jail for four charges including cruelty to animals.
It’s hard for Tammy Limer to wrap her mind around. Someone chased, stabbed, gutted and cut her llama into pieces.
“They killed her by gutting her, and then they cut her in half,” said Limer.
It was three in the afternoon Wednesday, investigators say, when Bray, 22, Lee, 18 and Clark, 20, crossed the electric fence at Borderline Farms and picked out the llama.
“They rode her. They tortured her. They killed her,” said Limer.
When Limer and her husband, Monroe Limer, arrived that evening, they saw organs on the fence.
“They made a conscious, heinous effort to come in, and torture her, and kill her, and that makes me mad,” said Monroe Limer.
The Union County Sheriff’s Office tracked one half of the llama’s body near a pond outside the farm tree line.
Investigators say the men dumped the second half of the animal’s body down a dirt path on Walkup Rd. That is 13 miles from the Limer’s farm.
They traced the blood to Lee’s home and arrested all three men Saturday.
“What’s next?” said Monroe Limer. “They get tired of killing animals, it’s not fun, challenging anymore, they step up to humans?”
A friend of the suspects wants to remain anonymous, but tells WCCB Charlotte the suspects have all been around her animals and never once showed any aggression toward them.
She says Bray and Clark told her they are sorry about the crime.
Bray’s family member also apologized on Facebook. “We… have tried and tried over several years to get him help for his drug addiction.”
The Limers hired an armed security guard, but mostly worry about the mens’ mental health.
“Next it will be a child,” said Tammy Limer. “As mad as I am, as upset as I am, as numb as I am, this is my child. This my baby, my pet. They need help.”
The men face charges of breaking and entering, larceny, trespassing and cruelty to animals.
